My current research is motivated by the challenges I encountered during my master’s thesis research at Melbourne University. In that project, I struggled to build accurate models that predicted portability because incomplete statistical power confounded which genetic associations (specifically eQTLs) were labeled ‘portable’ from one human population to another. This experience made me want to explore ways to reduce the impact of power on such analyses, and thus it become the focus of my work as a research assistant at St Vincent’s Institute of Medical research.

Outside of this major line of work, I have collaborated with researchers at Monash University to test evolutionary theories against data (e.g., the ‘Unguarded X’ theory) and with bioinformaticians at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research to build R software packages (e.g. TABI, for testing differential mRNA abundance).

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