GHGA Lecture Series: Zornitza Stark and Sebastian Lunke (virtual)
- 18 Sep 2024
Professor Zornitza Stark and Professor Sebastian Lunke from the Victorian Clinical Genetics Services talked about "Integrated multi-omics for rapid rare disease diagnosis on a national scale" at the GHGA lecture series ("Advances in Data-Driven Biomedicine") on September 18, 2024.
Watch this talk here!
Biography:
Zornitza completed her medical studies, including an intercalated science degree with first class honours, at the University of Oxford, UK. This was followed by basic paediatric training at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne and advanced training in clinical genetics at the Victorian Clinical Genetics Services (VCGS). She was appointed as a consultant at VCGS in 2011. Her main area of practice is paediatric genetics, with a special interest in the clinical application of genomic testing technologies for the diagnosis of rare genetic conditions.
Sebastian is currently the Head of the Division of Genetics and Genomics at the Victorian Clinical Genetics Services (VCGS) and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia. Following his PhD in epigenetics and several years working as a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Melbourne, where he focused on assay development for cancer genomics, he started re-training as a medical scientist by joining the Faculty of Science at the Royal College of Pathologist Australasia as the first scientist trainee fellow in 2014. Today, his team at VCGS constitutes one of the largest NATA accredited clinical genomics laboratories in Australia, with a strong focus on delivery of high quality clinical genomics assay and translation of novel technologies into clinical practise.