Dr Michael Roach

I'm the Bioinformatics program lead within Bioplatforms and Bioresources at the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI). My research interests include developing new tools and methods to expand the capabilities of emerging 'omics technologies. At FHMRI, I will be looking to expand the bioinformaitcs capacity, and grow the community across the College of Medicine and Public Health and the College of Science and Engineering.

I previously worked at the Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) where I assembled the Chardonnay genome and developed the new gold standard for grapevine clonal marker discovery. I wrote the pipeline Purge Haplotigs for heterozygous diploid assembly cleanup, and contributed to many other various yeast genomics projects. I completed a post-doc at the Flinders Accelerator for Microbiome Exploration (FAME), where we applied metagenomics to obtain a better understanding of the microbiomes associated with various environemental and human health issues. Most recently, I worked at the Adelaide Centre for Epigenetics (ACE) and South Australian immunoGENomics Cancer Institute (SAiGENCI) developing new bioinformatics software and methods for single cell and spatial 'omics.