Damian Jaccoud (PhD Student)

E-mail: d.jaccoudDiversityArrays.com

I am in the process of completing my PhD through the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University, in Canberra. I conduct my research at CAMBIA and DArT P/L on the development of Diversity Array Technology in plants and mammals. I played a role in the early Diversity Arrays development work applied to rice which led to the proof-of-concept paper. Currently, my PhD project involves extending the DArT technology as much as possible such as to the mammalian genome using mouse as a model. This research also includes a component of computer modelling. I have been testing various ideas in-silico which will hopefully lead to improvements and information about aspects of Diversity Array representations. The in-silico methods uses a range of perl scripts and programs such as stand alone Blast (NCBI) and Mathcad. Genomic sequences and inputs such as polymorphism information and various annotations are combined to give insight about the complexity and the potential for polymorphism detection for particular representations.

I am also a part-time researcher with DArT in the area of technology development. I work on converting the hybridisation method normally performed using individual microscope slide sized substrates to a larger 96-well format plate array. This involves designing new chambers, print maps and testing conditions to optimise signal to noise for a different setup.

I was born in Canberra in 1972 and am fluent in both English and French. I obtained a Bachelor of Science Honours degree from the Australian National University in 1997 with first class honours, majoring in Biochemistry and Molecular biology. The aim of my honours project was to determine the potential of a novel method of anchoring proteins onto tumour cells for cancer vaccine research.

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