Science at the Shine Dome 2010
Symposium: Genomics and mathematics
Friday, 7 May 2009
Professor Sean Grimmond
Sean Grimmond is director of the Queensland Centre for Medical Genomics, located at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland. His research over the last decade has focused on defining the molecular networks controlling biological processes and pathological states through genome-wide surveying of sequence content, transcriptome complexity and epigenomic signatures. His scientific achievements include the pioneering of array-based and sequence-based technologies, the functional annotation of mammalian transcriptomes and the study of transcriptional programs in cancer and urogenital development.
In 2009 Sean was awarded the NHMRC’s International Cancer Genome Consortium project; a five-year collaborative program between the University of Queensland, the Garvan Institute and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, to determine the molecular basis of pancreatic and ovarian cancer through the complete genome, transcriptome and methylome sequencing of 500 cancer patients.
