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Meet the team
Dr. Heera Rajandas
Director
Prof. Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén
Joint Director
Prof. Dr. Kasi Marimuthu
Deputy Director
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bent Petersen
Joint Deputy Director
Dr. Sivachandran Parimannan
Member
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lee Su Yin
Member
Snr. Prof. Dr. M. Ravichandran
Member

Sivachandran
Parimannan
Member

Sasireigga Jaya Jothi
Post doctoral fellow
Phage, agriculture, formulation

Yukgehnaish Kumaresan
Ph.D scholar
Phage, AI, Predictors, Image recognition

Mahin Ghorbani
Ph.D scholar
Metatranscriptomics, gut microbiome, Schizophrenia



Prasanna Mutusamy
Ph.D scholar
Phage, Comparative genomics
Ermelinda Wilson Felix
Ph.D scholar
Rainforest plant genomics
Michelle Loh Jiamin
Ph.D scholar
Phage, oral pathogens, metagenomics



Sumitra Sivaprakasam
Ph.D scholar
Metatranscriptomics, paddy, BioAg
Priscilla Isaac
Ph.D scholar
Rainforest microbiome, metagenomics
Siventhiran Balakrishnan
Ph.D scholar
Leech genomics & transcriptomics




Gerard Benedict
MSc. scholar
Metagenomics, gut microbiome, Schizophrenia
Tan Yee Fan
MSc. scholar
Metagenomics, paddy, BioAg
Sevaraj Kesavan
MSc. scholar
Mono & dual culture transcriptomics
Lew Ming Wei
MSc. scholar
Bacteria-phage transcriptomics
Our key partners

Dr. Laurence Croft
Associate Professor, Genomics & Manager, Deakin Genomics Research and Discovery Facility

Prof. Martha Clokie
Professor of Microbiology,
University of Leicester

Dr. Andrew Millard
Associate Professor Bacteriophage, Bioinformatics
University of Leicester

Dr. Stella Loke
Associate Research Fellow
School of Life & Env. Sciences,
Deakin University
Alumni
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