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.