Dr. Min Zhao is a UniSC Senior Research Fellow focusing on bioinformatics and genomics. Dr. Zhao graduated from Peking University in 2009 with a PhD. With a solid bioinformatics and systems biology background, Dr Zhao was offered a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at Vanderbilt University, USA. During this period, Dr. Zhao focused on the analysis and integration of high-throughput genomic, transcriptome, and literature data in complex diseases. With interdisciplinary experience, Dr. Zhao joined UniSC as a UniSC Research Fellow in 2014. Dr. Zhao has led an emerging group to integrate multiple dimensional data (genome, transcriptome, and proteomics data) generated in the GeneCology Research Centre. In 2018, Dr. Zhao was promoted to UniSC Senior Research Fellow. Dr. Zhao is an editorial board member of PLoS One, Peer J, and Peer J Computer Science and has been invited to review manuscripts from leading journals in the bioinformatics field such as Nucleic Acids Research and Bioinformatics. He also has been appointed as a Program Committee member for six international bioinformatics conferences.
Dr. Andrew L. Eamens joined the School of Health at the University of the Sunshine Coast as Lecturer in Biomedical Science in 2022. Prior to joining the University of the Sunshine Coast, Andrew held teaching or research positions at the University of Queensland, University of Newcastle, University of Sydney, University of York, and CSIRO Agriculture and Food. Andrew’s research to date has focused on characterizing the regulatory roles played by the various species of small RNA that accumulate in eukaryotic cells to control gene expression, including studying small RNA-directed gene expression regulation in plants, animals, and seaweeds. Furthermore, stemming directly from his research findings, Andrew has developed several novel small RNA- or non-coding RNA-based technologies for gene expression manipulation.
