Computational Biologist, Director of Software Dev @Illumina. Former Professor @UTSengage @AIMI_UTS, Former CSO @longastech, Past-president of @ABACBS
Joined February 2012
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Aaron Darling retweeted
16 Sep 2022
This is a really exciting position joint between my lab, the Austrakka team with @torstenseemann, the Kirby institute and many other partners across Australia to develop tools to support 'real-time' HIV and HCV epidemiology. Reach out if you want to discuss the role further.
New job: BioInformatician / Software Engineer @ VIC abacbs.org/jobs-detailed/202…
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15 Sep 2022
TFW a company integrates the free open source software you spent years developing into a commercial retail product, and then directs their customers to you for support queries.
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Abstracts are now open for ABACBS 2022, our annual conference. See pheedloop.com/ABACBS2022/sit…
Virtual and in-person in Melbourne Nov 28-Dec 2
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7 Aug 2022
Recombination, specifically homologous recombination, is a major driver of evolution in bacteria. But compared to de novo mutation we know very little about it, in part because the methods required to study it are poorly developed compared to standard phylogenetic inference [1/N]
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7 Aug 2022
Sid was the last student to join my group before my unexpected departure from UTS @AIMI_UTS. I am delighted that he has persevered in driving his PhD research forward, and for the generous contributions of his cosupervisors, despite the difficult circumstances. [7/N]
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7 Aug 2022
Of course an enormous amount of work remains to understand the relationship between population structure and recombination, among other things, and I hope the microbial popgen community can continue to adapt and build upon advances from our colleagues in human popgen. [8/8], fin
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Dear ABACBS members: Due to a last minute cancellation, we have a vacancy in our August seminar series - who would you like to hear from & we'll do our best to persuade them!
@combine_au @abacbs
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8 Jul 2022
I'm traveling in the US with wife and son, and my son has caught covid, either just before departure from Aus or on the flight despite kn95, vax etc. Is there a US-based sequencing service we can use to determine what strain he has?
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8 Jul 2022
For the curious, he seems to be over the symptoms already, thankfully, and both parents are still negative by antigen test, so far. Managing isolation while on the road stinks, though he's enjoying the extra time to play minecraft!
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New job: Research Fellow - Klebsiella Genomic Surveillance and Sero-epidemiology @ VIC abacbs.org/jobs-detailed/202…
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17 Jun 2022
New preprint! Together with @mattapow and @m4ment we demonstrate feasibility of Bayesian phylogenetic inference using trees embedded in n-dimensional hyperbolic spaces. This approach has some properties that could eventually enable pandemic-scale statistical phylo... 1/n
17 Jun 2022
So glad to share this work on Bayesian phylogenetics in hyperbolic space! Hyperbolic embeddings change trees from discrete objects into continuous parameters, giving “nearby” trees. arxiv.org/abs/2206.08044
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17 Jun 2022
The hope is that such approaches could one day enable pandemic-scale Bayesian phylogenetics, including complex models such as those used in phylogeography and viral phylodynamics
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17 Jun 2022
This project started just before my unexpected departure from academia 1 year ago, and @mattapow has done a remarkable job of driving it forward. It turned out to be surprisingly challenging, and I am equal parts honored to have contributed and sad that I couldn't do more.
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