AMBeR Fellows
AMBeR Fellows are researchers working at a postdoctoral level, who are supported partially or fully by AMBeR.
Dr James Dowty
The University of Melbourne
James is a biostatistician and AMBeR Research Fellow at the Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology at The University of Melbourne. He completed a PhD in pure mathematics in 2001 and retrained as a biostatistician in 2004 when he assumed his present role. His research interests include mathematical modelling of breast cancer, genetic and environmental modifiers in familial cancer syndromes and the genetic epidemiology of colon cancer, asthma and other complex diseases. He uses new and standard statistical techniques to study these diseases, including modified segregation, linkage, survival, logistic regression and simulation analyses implemented in MENDEL 3.0, R 2.4.2 and C++.
Dr Nguyen Nguyen
Garvan Institue of Medical Research
Nguyen is a member of the Bone and Mineral Research Program at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, a group investigating the genetics and epidemiology of osteoporosis. Nguyen is conducting a familial study into the genetics of bone phenotypes using the extended pedigree design, a study involving some 95 families, in which there are 5 large families with more than 400 individuals. His goal is to discover the specific genes involved in the genetic regulation of such things as bone mass, size and structure, and the way in which they are inherited.
Dr Devindri Perera
Menzies Research Institute / University of Tasmania
Devindri obtained her Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka, her Master of Science in Mathematical Statistics from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan, and her PhD from the University of Sydney in Australia researching saddlepoint approximation methods in panel time series data. Her current research focus is sun exposure and skin cancer; genetic variations in the vitamin D receptor gene, sun exposure and multiple sclerosis; and Genetic Linkage analysis in familial haematological cancer.
Dr Rebecca Webster
The University of Western Australia
Rebecca graduated from the University of Western Australia with a double degree, BSc (Pharmacology) & BE (Electrical and Electronic) (Hons). She did her PhD with the Laboratory for Cancer Medicine at WAIMR, focusing primarily on the prediction and verification of microRNA targets of relevance in cancer, and has worked at the Optical and Biomedical Engineering Laboratory (OBEL) at UWA on a skin cancer detector utilising diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. She has just joined AMBeR as an AMBeR Fellow.
