About
As a postdoctoral researcher in the Cardiac Bioengineering Group, I combine expertise in bioinformatics and molecular biology to advance our understanding of heart disease and treatment.
Building on my Bachelor of Science with Honours in Genomics from the University of Queensland, my PhD research focused on developing automated RNA-sequencing pipelines for human cardiac organoids, enabling large-scale perturbation studies with an omics readout.
A primary focus of my work has been to use these techniques to investigate transcriptional mechanisms of inflammation-induced cardiac dysfunction. In my current role, I am involved in generating large-scale systems biology datasets we term ‘Cardiopedia’. With these large-scale cardiac-specific datasets, we aim to use machine learning approaches to develop computational models to identify new therapeutic targets for heart disease.