Davis Mccarthy
Head, Bioinformatics And Cellular Genomics Lab
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolDavis Mccarthy is a research scientist and lab head with a DPhil in Statistics from the University of Oxford and over a decade of experience developing statistical and machine learning methods for high-throughput and single-cell genomic data. As Head of Bioinformatics and Cellular Genomics at St Vincent’s Institute and Group Leader at the University of Melbourne, he builds open-source R and Python tools—distributed via Bioconductor—that power differential expression and single-cell RNA-seq analysis. His work bridges method development and applied biology, from edgeR contributions for bulk RNA-seq to recent advances in single-cell QTL mapping and clonal mutation analysis. He combines rigorous statistical modeling with practical software engineering to make complex analyses reproducible and accessible to experimental collaborators. Based in Melbourne, he frequently partners with biologists to translate sequencing data into mechanistic insights about genetic regulation, ageing and cancer. An uncommon strength is his focus on the genetics of single-cell expression—studying both common variant regulation and somatic mutation effects within tissues.
11 years of coding experience
DPhil, Statistics, DPhil, Statistics at University of OxfordThe University of Melbourne
English, German
Github Skills (74)
seq10
gene-expression10
bioconductor10
bookdown10
single-cell-analysis10
rna-seq10
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
r9
single-cell-genomics8
dimension-reduction8
feature-extraction7
transcriptomics7
clustering7
shiny7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
davismcc/scater_tutorials_open_data
Feb 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 release, 20 commits, 1 PR in 8 months
data-setssingle-cell
davismcc/r-singlecell-img
May 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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