Caitlin Romanis

Caitlin Romanis is an early career researcher at the Hunter Medical Research Institute with the University of Newcastle.  Working within the Cancer Detection Therapy Program at HMRI, Caitlin is developing pipelines for streamlining the analysis of array-based epigenetic data. Caitlin completed her PhD in Microbial Ecology in the Neilan Laboratory of Microbial and Molecular Diversity, during during which she modelled cyanobacterial bloom development in wastewater systems using amplicon and shotgun sequencing technologies.  Caitlin has received international training in bioinformatics from both EMBL and EMBO and is now a co-founder and committee member of the Newcastle University Bioinformatics User Group. Caitlin’s love of bioinformatics has enabled her fledgling career to explore various research opportunities, including aquatic microbiomes, fungal endophyte interactions, bio-prospecting of niche environments and identification of novel cyanobacterial species.