
Paul Gardner
Paul is an Associate Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Otago. His research interests include non-coding RNAs, bioinformatics, genome annotation, benchmarking and the analysis of genome variation. Paul is a sporadic Wikipedian, Blogger and Tweeter. Much of his lecture material is freely available.
Meet the Team

Dr Chun Shen Lim
Postdoc
Lim has a PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Otago. He is carrying on research into gene expression optimisation and modelling biomolecular interactions.

DJ Champion
Assistant Research Fellow
DJ is working on lncRNA, and other genomic signal to noise challenges.
Alumni
- Dr Stinus Lindgreen - Researcher and Politician
- Dr Lars Barquist - Group Leader, Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, University of Würzburg
- Nellie Sibaeva - Mother, Researcher Extraordinaire
- Dr Sinan Uğur Umu - Postdoctoral Fellow, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo
- Dr Nicole Wheeler - Turing Fellow, University of Birmingham
- Dr Dorien Coray - Post Doctoral Fellow, the Biomolecular Interaction Centre, University of Canterbury
- Dr Fatemeh Ashari Ghomi, Postdoc, DTU, Lyngby, Denmark
- Stephanie McGimpsey, Woolf Fisher Trust Scholar, PhD Student, Cambridge University & the Wellcome Sanger Institute
- Helena Cooper, PhD Student, Monash University
- Dr Bethany Jose, Genome analyst, BioStart
- Dr Sasha Gavryushkina, Research Fellow, University of Canterbury
- Dr Astra Heywood, Bioinformatician, Plant & Food Research
- Dr Tom Nicholson, Software Curator, SBGrid Consortium
