Statistics and Bioinformatics Group

Bebbington, Mark
Professor
Collins, Lesley
Senior Research Fellow
Ganesalingam, Ganes
Senior Lecturer
Godfrey, Jonathan
Lecturer
Govindaraju, Raj
Senior Lecturer
Haslett, Steve
Professor
Hazelton, Martin
Professor
Jones, Geoff
Associate Professor
Lai, Chin Diew
Professor
Leader, Debbie
Senior Tutor
Marshall, Jonathan
Lecturer
Stirling, Doug
Senior Lecturer
Wu, Eric
Postdoctoral Fellow

Research in Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Many members of the Statistics and Bioinformatics Group have a general interest in the application of statistics in the biological sciences and medicine.

Statistical methods in epidemiology

Chorley cancer
One of the particular strengths of the Group is in spatio-temporal modelling of disease in both humans and animals. This work involves developments in statistical smoothing methods (to estimate risk functions over spatial regions, for example) and the analysis of point processes. Members of the Group often collaborate with staff in the Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences, the Hopkirk Centre, and the newly established Centre for Infection Disease Research (of which Professor Hazelton is a Principal Investigator).

Researchers:

Professor Martin Hazelton, A/Prof Geoff Jones, Dr Jonathan Marshall

Postgraduate students:

Brigid Betz-Stablein, Sarojinie Fernando, Kate Richards, Tilman Davies

Collaborators:

Professor Nigel French, Dr Mark Stevenson

Smoothing Methods in Biostatistics

Kiwi growth
Professor Martin Hazelton, A/Professor Geoff Jones and Dr Jonathan Marshall are interested in statistical smotohing problems, particularly with application to the biological sciences. Professor Hazelton and A/Prof Jones have recently worked on modelling animal growth curves.

Researchers:

Professor Martin Hazelton, A/Prof Geoff Jones, Dr Jonathan Marshall

Postgraduate students:

Sarojinie Fernando, Tilman Davies

Collaborators:

A/Prof Berwin Turlach (University of Western Australia)

Research in Statistical Engineering

One of the main research areas of the Statistics and Bioinformatics Group is statistical engineering of large scale processes.

Traffic system modelling (including inference, optimisation etc.), financial engineering (such as mitigation of market volatility), and industrial statistics (calibration, design of industrial experiments, statistical process control (SPC), acceptance sampling, reliability & safety) are the current statistical engineering topics of interest to the group.

Researchers:

Professor Martin Hazelton, Professor Chin-Diew Lai, Professor Mark Bebbington, A/Prof Geoff Jones, Dr. Raj Govindaraju, Dr. Jonathan Godfrey.

Postgraduate students:

Katharina Parry, Rebecca Green, Morgan Wellington

Evolutionary Bioinformatics in High Throughput Genomics

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High throughput genomics analyses biological datasets from next generation sequencing (NGS) and mass spectrometry (MS) proteomics. Bioinformatics is essential to filter �needles� of information from the �haystacks� of data from NGS and MS. This research combines bioinformatics and evolutionary analysis to filter RNA, DNA and protein data from diverse species to answer evolutionary questions back to the origin of life.

Researchers:

Dr Lesley Collins,

Postgraduate Students:

Jian Han, Simon Cox

Collaborators:

Professor David Penny (IMBS), Dr Scott Roy (USA)

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