Dr Ryan Wick
0411 851 158 | ryan.wick@unimelb.edu.au
- Position:
- Research Officer - Bioinformatics
- Theme(s):
- Bacterial and Parasitic Infections, Public Health, Computational Science and Genomics
- Discipline(s):
- Discovery Research, Computational Science and Genomics, Public Health
- Unit(s):
- The University of Melbourne, Department of Microbiology and Immunology (DMI)
- Lab Group(s):
- Stinear Group
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
Research Groups
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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.
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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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Postdoctoral Researcher
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Jessica PorterLaboratory Manager, Molecular microbiology
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Dr Jean LeeSenior postdoctoral scientist, Molecular microbiology
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Senior Researcher
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Dr Louise JuddDAMG senior scientist, Genomics
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Dr Geraldine KongPostdoctoral scientist, Computational biology
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Dr Andrew BuultjensPostdoctoral scientist, Computational biology
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Dr Prashanth RamachandranNHMRC Emerging Leader Investigator, Clinical metagenomics
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Dr Liam SharkeySenior postdoctoral scientist, Molecular microbiology
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Dr Calum WalshSenior postdoctoral scientist, Computational biology
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Dr Nancy WangSenior postdoctoral scientist, Immunology and microbiology
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Dr Ryan WickPostdoctoral scientist, Computational biology
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Jessica GuProject manager
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Angela DonaldProject manager
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John ForsythPhD student
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Infectious Diseases Physician | Medical Education Consultant | PhD Candidate
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PhD Student
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Rutaiwan DusadeepongPhD student
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Karolina MercouliaPhD student
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Sarah ZufanPhD student
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Warasinee MujchariyakulPhD student
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Angaj GhoshPhD student
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Research Fellow
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Dr Koen VandelannooteSenior postdoctoral scientist, Honorary lab staff
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