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Hire Dr. Gayathri T.

Australia

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Bioinformatician with 8+ years of experience in academic research

Profile Summary

Bioinformatician with extensive expertise in multiomics data analysis, gene regulatory networks, machine learning approaches in particularly cancer Biology. I hold a PhD in Immunogenomics from the University of Queensland, where I pioneered work on miRNA-gene networks in natural killer cell activation. I have a high-impact research career spans academic and applied roles across Europe and Australia. I have co-authored several peer-reviewed publications in top-tier journals and contributed to book chapters.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
• ☆ Cell Biology
• ☆ Bioinformatics
• ☆ Gene & Protein Expression Analysis
• ☆ Cell Culture
• ☆ Python
• ☆ R
• ☆ Drug Development
• ☆ Immunotherapy
• ☆ Cancer Research
• ☆ Cancer Biology

Services

• Research
• Data & AI

Research Meta-Research, Feasibility Study, Fact Checking, Gray Literature Search, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Image Analysis, Data Mining, Data Cleaning, Data Processing

Work Experience

Bioinformatician

Institute of Oncology Research

April 2024 - August 2025

Research Fellow

Griffith University

April 2021 - July 2023

Research Assistant

Griffith University

August 2019 - April 2021

Research Assistant

Queen's University Belfast

December 2014 - January 2016

Education

PhD (The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute)

The University of Queensland

February 2016 - September 2020

MSc Computational Biology (School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences)

Queen's University Belfast

June 2013 - July 2014

BSc (Hons) Internet Computing (Computer Science)

University of Greenwich

April 2010 - May 2011

Certifications

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Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Bednarska K, Thillaiyampalam G, Mujaj S, Nourse J, Gunawardana J, Muhammed B. Sabdia, Law SC, Pilaar A, Cui Q, de Long LM, et al. (2024). The IRE1α Endonuclease Plays a Dual Role in Regulating the XBP1/miRNA-34a Axis and PD-1 Expression within Natural Killer Cells in Hodgkin Lymphoma . Acta haematologica.

Gayathri Thillaiyampalam, Laura Maria Rantanen, Maina Bitar, Riikka Lampinen, Romal Stewart, Hazel Quek, Lotta E. Oikari, Carla Cunί-Lόpez, Ratneswary Sutharsan, Jamila Iqbal, et al. (2022). An Alzheimer’s Disease Patient-Derived Olfactory Stem Cell Model Identifies Gene Expression Changes Associated with Cognition . Cells.

Gayathri Thillaiyampalam, Liisa M Murray, Yang Xi, Alexandre S Cristino, John W Upham(2021). Whole transcriptome analysis of high and low IFN‐α producers reveals differential response patterns following rhinovirus stimulation . Clinical & Translational Immunology. 10. (11). Wiley

Keane, C., Law, S.C., Gould, C., Birch, S., Sabdia, M.B., de Long, L.M., Thillaiyampalam, G., Abro, E., Tobin, J.W., Tan, X., et al.(2020). LAG3: A novel immune checkpoint expressed by multiple lymphocyte subsets in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma . Blood Advances. 4. (7). p. 1367-1377.

Cristino, A.S., Nourse, J., West, R.A., Sabdia, M.B., Law, S.C., Gunawardana, J., Vari, F., Mujaj, S., Thillaiyampalam, G., Snell, C., et al.(2019). EBV microRNA-BHRF1-2-5p targets the 39UTR of immune checkpoint ligands PD-L1 and PD-L2 . Blood. 134. (25). p. 2261-2270.

Cui, Q., Vari, F., Cristino, A.S., Salomon, C., Rice, G.E., Sabdia, M.B., Guanzon, D., Palma, C., Mathew, M., Talaulikar, D., et al.(2018). Circulating cell-free miR-494 and miR-21 are disease response biomarkers associated with interim-positron emission tomography response in patients with diffuse large b-cell lymphoma . Oncotarget. 9. (78). p. 34644-34657.

Thillaiyampalam, G., Liberante, F., Murray, L., Cardwell, C., Mills, K., Zhang, S.-D.(2017). An integrated meta-analysis approach to identifying medications with potential to alter breast cancer risk through connectivity mapping . BMC Bioinformatics. 18. (1).

Malcomson, B., Wilson, H., Veglia, E., Thillaiyampalam, G., Barsden, R., Donegan, S., Banna, A.E., Elborn, J.S., Ennis, M., Kelly, C., et al.(2016). Connectivity mapping (ssCMap) to predict A20-inducing drugs and their antiinflammatory action in cystic fibrosis . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 113. (26). p. E3725-E3734.

PREPRINT

Gayathri Thillaiyampalam, Karolina Bednarska, Sally Mujaj, Jamie Nourse, Jay Gunawardana, Muhammed B. Sabdia, Qingyan Cui, Lilia M. de Long, Frank Vari, Maher K. Gandhi, et al. (2023). The IRE1α-endonuclease regulates PD-1 expression through a novel XBP1/miRNA-34a axis within Natural Killer cells .

BOOK CHAPTER

Gayathri Thillaiyampalam, Alexandre S. Cristino (2022). MicroRNA target prediction and validation . MicroRNA.

Gayathri Thillaiyampalam, Alexandre S. Cristino (2022). MicroRNA target prediction and validation . MicroRNA.

DISSERTATION THESIS

and Gayathri Thillaiyampalam(2020). Characterising miRNA – gene network associated with natural killer cell activation . University of Queensland Library

CONFERENCE ABSTRACT

Gayathri Thillaiyampalam, Katy Mcconnell, Amal Elbanna, Arlene Brown, Madeleine Ennis, Shu-Dong Zhang, Michael D Shields, Bettina Schock (2019). Pharmacological induction of A20: Anti-inflammatory effects in paediatric asthma . Airway cell biology and immunopathology.