Training the next crew
Teaching & Mentoring
People come here to learn how to build a measurement, not how to operate one. You will work on both the experiment and the model behind it, in two groups on two continents, and you should leave able to do something you could not do when you arrived. This is what that looks like in practice.
What training here gives you
Four things we try to hand over to everyone who spends time in the group, whatever they came in knowing.
Both halves of the problem
Every project here has a wet-lab half and a computational half, and we expect you to understand both even if you only run one. A student who can design the experiment and write the model is not competing for the same jobs as one who can do either alone.
Build the measurement, do not just run it
Pipeline fluency ages badly. We teach people why a method returns what it returns, where it breaks, and how to build a new one when the existing measurement does not answer the question. That transfers to whatever comes after the current generation of tools.
Supervision across two groups and two continents
Joint projects between Perth, Canberra, Montpellier and Grenoble are normal here, not exceptional. Students get two supervisors from genuinely different disciplines, time in the partner laboratory, and a network that is theirs afterwards.
We write the applications with you
Scholarships and fellowships are part of the training, not a hurdle you clear alone beforehand. We co-write applications with strong candidates and treat a rejected first attempt as a draft rather than a verdict.
Where you can be taught by us
Formal teaching at our host institutions, alongside the project supervision that most people come here for.
Epigenetics and Epitranscriptomics
SCIE5003 Advanced Bioinformatics and Data Analysis for Genomics, UWA
The chemical marks laid on DNA and RNA, how sequencing is made to report them, and how much of what gets called a modification survives contact with the raw signal. Postgraduate, Semester 1.
Ageing and Senescence
IMED3020 / PODI3115 Body Systems 2, UWA
Senescence as a protective stress response that stops damaged cells dividing, and what goes wrong when senescent cells accumulate and their inflammatory secretions start driving tissue dysfunction and chronic disease.
Statistics for Genomics
Université de Montpellier
Statistical modelling for high-dimensional sequencing data, built for a room containing both mathematicians and biologists. Masters level, convened by us.
Statistics in the biological sciences
Honours and Masters programmes, France
For biologists who want to design and interpret their own experiments rather than hand the analysis to somebody else.
People who have come through
Combined across both group leaders, in Australia and in France, with jointly supervised people counted once. Current to July 2026.
- 17
- Doctoral candidates supervised
- Across RNA biology and statistics, in Australia and France. Eleven have completed, six are in progress.
- 15+
- Masters and Honours projects
- Including joint Franco-Australian projects co-supervised across both groups.
- 10
- Postdoctoral researchers mentored
- Plus six research officers and research assistants developed into independent roles.
- 10+
- Candidature panels served
- Advisory and examination panels for doctoral candidates outside our own groups.
Thinking about doing a project with us?
We take students from biology, mathematics, computer science and physics, and we do not expect you to arrive already fluent in all of it. What we do expect is that you want to understand the measurement rather than just the output. Tell us what you would like to learn and roughly when you are free.