Dr Ryan Wick is a bioinformatician specialising in long-read assembly of bacterial genomes. He has developed numerous bioinformatics tools, including Bandage, Unicycler, Porechop, Filtlong, Badread, Trycycler and Polypolish. Ryan earned his PhD from Monash University under Professor Kathryn Holt. Currently, Ryan is a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Tim Stinear's group at the University of Melbourne's Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity.
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Key Achievements
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Dr Ryan Wick was awarded the PLOS Computational Biology 'Exemplary Methods/Software' research prize in 2018.
He has been invited to speak at international conferences, most recently at the 2022 NZ Microbiological Society Annual Conference where he delivered a plenary talk and the 2023 FDA Omics Days conference where he delivered a keynote talk.
He has received two awards from ABACBS: the Outstanding PhD Thesis Award in 2022 and the ARDC Software Developer Award in 2023.
His PhD thesis won the Dean's Award for Doctoral Thesis Excellence by the Monash Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences in 2023.
In both 2022 and 2023, he was named on the Clarivate list of Highly Cited Researchers.
Research Groups
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Stinear Group
Tim Stinear’s group’s research addresses priorities across four connected themes that including hospital superbugs, pathogenic mycobacteria, natural product discovery and public health genomics that aim to understand and contain the spread of bacteria causing serious human disease.
Lab Team
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Laboratory Head and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Mycobacterium ulcerans
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Jessica Porter
Laboratory Manager, Molecular microbiology
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Dr Jean Lee
Senior postdoctoral scientist, Molecular microbiology
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Dr Louise Judd
DAMG senior scientist, Genomics
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Dr Geraldine Kong
Postdoctoral scientist, Computational biology
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Dr Andrew Buultjens
Postdoctoral scientist, Computational biology
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Dr Prashanth Ramachandran
NHMRC Emerging Leader Investigator, Clinical metagenomics
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Dr Liam Sharkey
Senior postdoctoral scientist, Molecular microbiology
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Dr Calum Walsh
Senior postdoctoral scientist, Computational biology
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Dr Nancy Wang
Senior postdoctoral scientist, Immunology and microbiology
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Dr Ryan Wick
Postdoctoral scientist, Computational biology
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Jessica Gu
Project manager
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Angela Donald
Project manager
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Infectious Diseases Physician | Medical Education Consultant | PhD Candidate
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Alexandra Krause
PhD student
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Rutaiwan Dusadeepong
PhD student
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Karolina Mercoulia
PhD student
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Warasinee Mujchariyakul
PhD student
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Dr Koen Vandelannoote
Senior postdoctoral scientist, Honorary lab staff