The Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Group has been a hub for bioinformatics research, teaching, and practice since its founding in 2023. We are located in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, and our team comprises of multiple groups who are passionate about bioinformatics and computational biology.
We are involved in a number of research and bioinformatics software projects, and offer these projects for both honors and post-graduate students.
We are the key contact people for the Bachelor of Engineering (Bioinformatics) degree at UNSW, and are happy to speak at external events (e.g., high school and career events).
News
2024
January
- Hasindu Gamaarachchi delivered a flash talk at the Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society (ABACBS) 2023 conference. Three of his students, Hiruna Samarakoon, Kisaru Liyanage and Elton Shih, presented research posters at this conference
- Hasindu Gamaarachchi is co-investigator of $2.93 million Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) grant.
- Raymond Louie was co-awarded a 4-year NHMRC Ideas Grant entitled "Harnessing Pathogenic Immune Cells to Develop a New Diagnostic for Non-Responders and Refractory Conditions in Celiac Disease", with a total budget of $1,094,640.50.
- Hasindu Gamaraachchi and co-authors published in Nature. This research focuses on landscape of genomic structural variation in Indigenous Australians. It reveals the unique diversity of Indigenous Australians and provides the most comprehensive picture to date of the genomic diversity within and between First Nations communities across Australia.
- Raymond Louie has the following paper accepted: "CAR+ and CAR- T cells share a differentiation trajectory into an NK-like subset after CD19 CAR-T cell infusion in patients with B cell malignancies", Nature Communications.
- Raymond Louie has the following paper accepted: "Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy Targeting Epithelial Cell Adhesion Molecule in Gastric Cancer: Mechanisms of Tumor Resistance", Cancers
2023
November
- Hasindu Gamaarachchi delivered an invited talk on "Fast and efficient population-scale Nanopore Data Analysis" at the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) in Geelong run by the CSIRO.
- Raymond Louie delivered an invited talk at the Oz Single Cell Conference in Melbourne.
October
- Raymond Louie gave a talk on protein marker identification at the Sydney Bioinformatics Research Symposium in September.
- Hasindu Gamaarachchi delivered an invited seminar at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich.
- Sara Ballouz and Raymond Louie co-organized a Single-Cell Bioinformatics Analysis whole-day workshop in collaboration with members from the Garvan Institute and the Kirby Institute. This inter-school collaboration attracted >30 ECR and MCR from 5 research institutes, and received positive feedback.