Get To Know Our PacBio Workshop Presenters!
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We’re days away from kicking off our ANZ PacBio Bioinformatics workshop webinars, presenting in tandem with Millennium Science and thanks to our AGRF-UQ PacBio Service. If you haven’t registered, get clicking: here’s the link!
In the meantime, we’d like to introduce you to our speakers and presenters who’ll be up on your screens across the two days….
Dr Carolyn Hogg
Population Biologist, University of Sydney
Bio: I have been working on the conservation of threatened species for over twenty-five years both in Australia and overseas. I am currently the Senior Research Manager for the Australasian Wildlife Genomics Group in the Faculty of Science. I have been working with the Save the Tasmanian Devil Program for the past ten years; in addition to other species such as orange-bellied parrots, koalas, bilbies and woylies. Working closely with both my academic and conservation management partners my vision is to create a conservation legacy for Australia by changing the way we integrate science, management and policy; to proactively promote species’ resilience in the face of a changing world. We are achieving this by developing better tools and technologies to integrate molecular genetics into real-time conservation management decisions.
Assistant Professor Heng Li
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Bio: Heng Li studies advanced computational algorithms to solve practical biological problems, currently with a focus on sequence alignment, variant calling, de novo assembly, data storage, and information query. He developed and maintains several widely used software packages, such as BWA, samtools, minimap2, and seqtk, for analyzing high-throughput sequencing data. He has also collaborated with multiple research groups and published work on the analysis of single-cell sequence data, chromosome conformation, cancer genomics, population genetics and species evolution.
Postdoc with Richard Durbin, WTSI, UK
Ph.D. with Wei-Mou Zheng, ITP, China
B.Sc., Nanjing University, China
Dr Khi Pin Chua
Scientist, Field Applications Support, PacBio Asia Pacific
Bio: Khi Pin completed his post-graduate degree in computational study of proteins. In his post-doctoral research, he integrated genomics and transcriptomics data to elucidate insights into the evolution and resistance mechanism of lung cancer. Khi Pin is currently working for PacBio to support customers utilizing the cutting-edge PacBio long-reads sequencing.
Dr Paul Gooding
Senior Field Application Scientist, Millennium Science.
Bio: Paul moved to Adelaide in 1998 having completed a PhD in Plant Molecular Biology at the John Innes Centre in the UK. He completed a post-doctoral position at CSIRO-Plant Industry where he focussed on post-harvest quality of fruits and vegetables, then moved to the University of Adelaide to run their cereal genetic transformation facility. He then worked for many years as Senior Scientist with the Australian Genome Research Facility (AGRF), running a suite of Next-Gen Sequencing machines as well as coordinating genotyping and diversity profiling projects. He joined Millennium Science in 2019 as FAS for genomics portfolios in Australia and New Zealand.
Dr Gareth Price
Service Manager, Galaxy Australia + Australian BioCommons
Bio: Dr Gareth Price is Head of Computational Biology at the QCIF Facility for Advanced Bioinformatics. Gareth has 20 years’ experience as a Bioinformatician and Genomics Scientist. His expertise spans experimental design, assay performance, data QC, data analysis and data interpretation, involving a variety of model organisms from microorganisms, fruit flies, mice to humans as well as non-model organisms with limited genome information. In his role Gareth manages the diverse spectrum of researcher lead questions involving life science data, provides training in genomic data analysis, as well as leading Galaxy Australia (https://usegalaxy.org.au) as Service Manager.
Dr David Hawkes
Brisbane Node Manager, Platform Manager – SNP + Genotyping, AGRF
Bio: David Hawkes is the Brisbane Site manager at AGRF, where he manages services in Sanger sequencing, MassARRAY genotyping and PacBio long read sequencing. He completed his PhD at the University of Queensland where he worked towards harnessing cytochrome P450’s for environmental remediation, and later rounded out his training with a Masters in Biostatistics. Pursuing an interest in genomics, David worked with Keith Mitchelson, on a novel sequencing by assisted mutagenesis (SAM) technique for Sanger sequencing, before taking a position with AGRF in the MassARRAY genotyping team. Working as genotyping manager and later Brisbane Site manager, David has 14 years of experience working within genomics services. David has previously managed AGRF’s HiSeq4000 service and now manages PacBio services on the Sequel II platform.
