Dr Marie-Emilie Gauthier
Faculty of Science,
School of Biology & Environmental Science
Biography
Dr Gauthier completed her PhD at the University of Queensland in 2010. She has worked in the field of marine genomics, metagenomics and clinical genomics, as well as in diagnostics pathology. In 2021, she joined the team of Roberto Barrero within eResearch at QUT. During her time at QUT, she has been involved in the implementation and validation of bioinformatics tools for the detection of viruses and viroids, enabling the post-entry quarantine facility to screen plants being imported into Australia using next generation sequencing. Her work has been funded by Horticulture Innovation Australia (HIA), the Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) and Australian BioCommons.+617+61 7
Personal details
Positions
- Research Fellow in Bioinformatics
Faculty of Science,
School of Biology & Environmental Science
Keywords
Bioinformatic methods development, Genomics, Plant diagnostics, High throughput sequencing
Qualifications
- Ph.D. Biological Sciences (University of Queensland)
Teaching
Dr Gauthier developed and delivered material for multiple hands-on in person HTS training workshops at the Annual Diagnostics and Surveillance conference and within governmental departments in 2022. She also delivered an online demonstration of the use of the VirReport pipeline in 2023. She is assisting with the delivery of three eResearch HTS workshops for QUT students and staff in 2024.
She is currently co-supervising an Honours student as part of a collaboration with CAB.
Experience
Dr Gauthier was a guest speaker in the Early Entry Program (EEP) ‘Industry and Careers’ organised by the Faculty of Science at the University of Adelaide in 2017. She was also a career panel guest speaker and a poster judge at the COMBINE conference in Adelaide in 2017.
Publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Marie-Emilie, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).