Many MSc (Bioinformatics) students have undertaken their research projects under the direct supervision of Melbourne Bioinformatics researchers, putting them in an enviable position for entry into industry, research or a PhD.
Student | Primary supervisor | Melbourne Bioinformatics supervisors | Thesis topic | Year completed |
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Chuyi Wang | Danny Park | Danny Park; Khalid Mahmood | Protein structure features for variant effect prediction | current |
Difei Huang | Bernie Pope | Bernie Pope | Can tumour-in-normal contamination detect circulating tumour DNA and does it relate to cancer outcomes? | current |
Jean Ho | Bernie Pope | Bernie Pope | Exploring rare brain metastasic genome somatic variant structure with common brain metastasis | current |
Pengan Zhang | Danny Park | Danny Park; Khalid Mahmood | Protein structures data augmentation | current |
Ruixin Cai | Tom Harrop | Tom Harrop | Techniques for cross-species RNA seq analysis | current |
Ruofei Jiang | Danny Park | Danny Park; Khalid Mahmood | Exploring the relationship between neoantigens and immune microenvironment in cutaneous melanoma | current |
Sangzhe Gu | Chol-hee Jung | Chol-hee Jung | Assessing the effects of incorrect metadata to the analysis of DNA methylation with the focus on the sex-labelling | current |
Shijia Tang | Danny Park | Danny Park; Khalid Mahmood | Anti-PD1 IT in melanoma outcomes | current |
Yuanjie Wang | Danny Park | Danny Park; Khalid Mahmood | Protein structural features for variant effect prediction | current |
Farjana Akhter | Danny Park | Danny Park; Khalid Mahmood | Immune involvement in ductal and lobular breast cancer | 2022 |
Kewei Yuan | Bernie Pope | Bernie Pope | Assessing the effect of somatic mutations in cancer using reverse phase protein arrays | 2022 |
Raquel Cooper | Dieter Bulach | Dieter Bulach | Establishment of in silico virulence factor assays for use in Public Health Microbiology | 2022 |
Senyang Xue | Danny Park | Danny Park; Khalid Mahmood | Tumour microenvironment and cancer outcomes | 2022 |
Dafei Lin | Bernie Pope | Bernie Pope | Assessing the effect of pseudogenes on DNA sequencing alignment and variant calling in human cancer | 2021 |
Dongyu Li | Chol-hee Jung | Chol-hee Jung | Exploration of multi-omics prostate cancer data | 2021 |
Jiayi Liu | Chol-hee Jung | Chol-hee Jung | Comprehensive survey of sex status of public DNA methylation datasets | 2021 |
Jiayu Wang | Bernie Pope | Bernie Pope | Assessing the quality of structural variants in the context of DNA read alignments | 2021 |
Maria Orlovskaya | Danny Park | Danny Park; Khalid Mahmood | Mutation effect prediction for clinical diagnostics and disease gene discovery | 2021 |
Patrick Hawkins | Danny Park | Danny Park; Khalid Mahmood | Cancer Outcomes Related to Viral Agents, the Immune System, and the Tumour Microenvironment | 2021 |
Yizhe Mao | Danny Park | Danny Park; Khalid Mahmood | TCGA and Immune system | 2021 |
Alexander Barnett | Danny Park | Khalid Mahmood | Towards personalized cancer vaccines: modeling HLA:neoepitope binding | 2020 |
Emma Darling | Danny Park | Danny Park; Khalid Mahmood | Improved mutation effect prediction via functional datasets | 2020 |
Peizi Chen | Danny Park | Danny Park; Khalid Mahmood | Somatic mutations in mismatch repair genes: an investigation using TCGA | 2020 |
Qiwei Hu | Dieter Bulach | Dieter Bulach | Metagenomics approaches to the detection of bacterial antimicrobial resistance genes | 2020 |
Sally Beard | Matt Wakefield | Matt Wakefield | Investigation of pregnancy complications: bioinformatics for therapeutic development | 2020 |
Caine Barlow | Tom May | Jessica Chung | An examination of herbarium and community species distribution data to assess the threat status of a range of Australian fungi based on the IUCN red list criteria | 2019 |
Himanshi Arora | Vicky Perreau | Vicky Perreau | Use of transcriptomic data and interaction networks to gain insight into addiction pathways for the prospect of future personalised medicine strategies. | 2019 |
Mailie Gall | Paul James | Bernie Pope | Copy number variation in Familial Colorectal Cancer Type X | 2019 |
Steven Morgan | Tara Karnezis | Bernie Pope; Danny Park | identification of genetic variants associated with Lipodema project | 2019 |
Tianyi Lu | Danny Park | Danny Park; Khalid Mahmood | Towards cost-efficient HLA sequencing screening | 2019 |
Yuchuan Liu | Judy Savige | Khalid Mahmood | The genetics of inherited renGenetics of fibrillary glomerulonephritis | 2019 |
Jianan Wang | Judy Savige | Danny Park | Identification of novel genes for inherited causes of kidney failures | 2018 |
Jonathan Reich | Juan Nunez-Iglesias | Juan Nunez-Iglesias; Torsten Seemann | Accelerating the reconstruction of brain circuits with big image analysis | 2017 |
Muhammad Dilmir | Khalid Mahmood | Khalid Mahmood; Bernie Pope | A framework for prioritizing genomic variants and disease genes in lobular breast cancer | 2017 |
Dong Hao Teng | Juan Nunez-Iglesias | Juan Nunez-Iglesias | Interactive clustering of high-content screen images with Microscopium | 2016 |
Priyanka Pillai | Sepehr Tabrizi | Dieter Bulach | A Whole Metagenome Sequencing approach for the investigation of the onset of bacterial vaginosis | 2016 |
Adrian Hecker | Kaylene Simpson | Juan Nunez-Iglesias | Unsupervised clustering of high-content screen images to discover off-target phenotypes | 2015 |
Agnes Tan | Sepehr Tabrizi | Gayle Philip | Changes in microbial communities upon onset of Bacterial Vaginosis | 2015 |
Serene Siah | Torsten Seemann | Torsten Seemann | Genomic analysis of a novel marine mycobacterium | 2014 |
Yu Wan | Chol-hee Jung | Chol-hee Jung | Breast cancer epigenome-wide association study | 2014 |
Lilly Yuen | Dieter Bulach | Dieter Bulach | A next generation sequencing approach for the detection of drug resistant hepatitis B virus in the clinical setting | 2013 |