Malathi Dona, PhD

Dr

Malathi Dona, PhD

Senior Research officer, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute

Australia

Topic

Building an International Career in Health Research

Biography

Dr. Malathi received her PhD in Statistics from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, in 2018. During her PhD, she developed novel statistical methods to analyse large-scale omics data and discover disease-associated genes. After completing a short postdoctoral position at the University of Melbourne in 2019, Malathi joined the Cardiac Cellular Systems Laboratory at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute as a Research Officer to apply her bioinformatics expertise to cardiovascular research. Her research focused on developing advanced bioinformatics pipelines to study complex cardiovascular tissues, including the heart, aorta and liver, to better understand cellular changes that contribute to disease development. With more than 12 years of experience in bioinformatics, Malathi is currently working as a Senior Research Officer in the Systems Medicine and Bioinformatics Laboratory at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute. Malathi uses cutting-edge computational biology and bioinformatics approaches to integrate single-cell omics technologies with large-scale population-level biobank data to gain deeper