Fahad Ali
I am a bioinformatician, molecular geneticist, and sessional academic at the University of Sydney. I live and work on unceded Darug land.
In my current work, under the supervision of Dr Erin Shanahan, I investigate the relationship between the composition of the gut microbiome and clinical outcomes in advanced melanoma patients treated with checkpoint blockade immunotherapy.
Teaching
- BIOL1006 (Life and Evolution)
- BIOL1007 (From Molecules to Ecosystems)
- BIOL1008 (Human Biology)
- BCMB2001 (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
- GEGE2001 (Genetics and Genomics)
- QBIO2001 (Molecular Systems Biology)
- BCMB3001 (Gene and Genome Regulation)
- GEGE3004 (Applied Genomics)
Conferences and Awards
- International High Performance Computing Summer School (IHPCSS) (2023)
- University of Sydney Official Delegate, Global Young Scientists Summit (2020)
- International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition, Team Leader and Gold Medalist (2019)
- Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE) Student Scholar (2018)
- Faculty of Science Talented Student Program (TSP) Scholar (2012)
- University of Sydney Outstanding Achievement Scholarship (2012)
Media
- “Don’t lose sleep over ‘genetically edited’ babies” (print article) Sydney Morning Herald, November 28, 2018
- “CRISPR will save lives - and technology can't come soon enough” (print article) Sydney Morning Herald, February 25, 2018
- “No single 'gay gene', reveals the largest-ever study of the genetics of same-sex sexual behaviour” (print article) ABC News, August 30, 2019
- Evenings with Chris Bath (radio interview) ABC Radio Sydney, March 22, 2018
- The World Today with Sally Sara (radio interview) ABC Radio Sydney, August 30, 2019
- The Science Show with Robyn Williams (radio interview) ABC Radio National, November 9, 2019
Affiliations
- Charles Perkins Centre
- International Society for Computational Biology
- Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society
- Genetics Society of AustralAsia