Meet our team

Dr Deanna Deveson Lucas
Manager
Acting Director
Bioinformatics Platform
Molecular Microbiologist and Bioinformatician with specialisation in WGS, RNAseq and single-cell technologies.

Dr Paul Harrison
Bioinformatics Research Fellow with specialization in RNA-Seq, Statistical Methods, Visualization, Software Development, Teaching.

Dr Stuart Archer
Senior Bioinformatician with specialization in RNA biology, TCPseq, Multi-Omics studies. Stuart is a member of both the bioinformatics platform and the the Abud Laboratory.

Dr Laura Perlaza Jimenez
Bioinformatician with specialization in Bacterial genomics, RNAseq, single cell RNAseq, Assembly and Metagenomics and is a member of both the Monash Bioinformatics Platform and the Rosenbluh Laboratory.

Dr Andrew Perry
Research software specialist with background in Software Development, Structure Biology, Linux admin

Ms Adele Barugahare
Bioinformatician with specialization in Epigenetics, ATACseq, ChIPseq, Transcriptomics, and Bioinformatics Training. Adele is a member of both the Monash Bioinformatics Platform and the Turner Laboratory.

Dr Hossein Valipour Kahrood
Bioinformatician with experience in genomic selection, RNAseq gene expression analysis, sequence alignment, visualisation, and genotype imputation of agriculturally significant organisms. Hossein is a member of both the Monash Bioinformatics Platform and The Monash Proteomics and Metabolomics Platform.
Dr Moshe Olshansky
Bioinformatician with specialisation in microarrays, bulk and single-cell RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, ATAC-Seq, HiC, and applied mathematics and statistics. Moshe is a member of both the Monash Bioinformatics Platform and the Jacobson Laboratory.
Dr Sharni Amarasinghe
Bioinformatics Research Fellow with specialisation in bulk and single-cell RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, ATAC-Seq and spatial technologies. Shani is a member of both the Monash Bioinformatics Platform and the Rosello-Díez Laboratory.