bioDS lab is located across Levels 5 & 7 in Jack Erskine building.
We are part of the Biomathematics Research Centre and the School of Mathematics and Statistics at University of Canterbury in beautiful Christchurch
Faculty
Postdocs
- Sasha Gavryushkina: Phylodynamics of cancer using single cells and spatial transcriptomics
PhD students
- Lars Berling: Statistics in the time-tree space
- Kieran Elmes: Deep learning fitness landscapes, co-supervised by Michael Witbrock at the University of Auckland
- Kate Truman: Identifiability of phylogenetic models, supervised by Sasha Gavryushkina
MSc students
- Maayan Levy: Online algorithms
Alumni
- Lena Collienne (MSc, PhD, postdoc; currently postdoc at Fred Hutch Cancer Center with Erick Matsen)
- Jiří Moravec (postdoc; currently Senior R&D Data Scientist at BioLumic)
- Astra Heywood (postdoc; currently Bioinformatician at Plant and Food Research)