Did you know? Schrödinger's What is Life? (1944) predicted genes were 'aperiodic crystals' storing life's code-script, inspiring DNA's discovery.
Organising Committee
Meet the team behind the APSPM 2026 conference.
Caroline is a research fellow at the School of Biological Sciences and the Centre for Conputational Evolution, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research blends protein structure, molecular evolution, and phylogenomics to investigate evolutionary relationships across the tree of life.
Jordan completed his studies at the University of Auckland and is now based at the Australian National University. His interests lie in phylogenetic methods devlopment, virus evolution, and protein sequence and structure evolution; particularly the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases.
Ashar is a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute and UQ, having previously worked at A*STAR, Singapore. Part of his current research focuses on developing new methods in molecular evolution, notably 'Structome', his framework of structure-based phylogenetic methods.
Conference Helpers
Stephanie is a research fellow at the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, Australia. Her research focuses on understanding and predicting the effects of genomic variation leading to drug resistance and diseases like cancer.
Akshita is a research fellow at the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, Australia. Her research focuses on developing advanced machine learning and deep learning models to predict mutation effects on protein stability and function.