AusTrakka Team
AusTrakka Executive Group (AEG)
- Prof Benjamin Howden, MDU PHL (VIC)
- A/Prof Amy Jennison, PEHRL (QLD)
- Prof Vitali Sintchenko, ICPMR (NSW)
- Prof David Speers, PathWest (WA)
- Dr Karina Kennedy, ACT Pathology (ACT)
- Dr Lito Papanicolas, SA Pathology (SA)
- Dr Louise Cooley, Royal Hobart Hospital (TAS)
- A/Prof Ella Meumann, NT Health (NT)
- Prof Torsten Seemann, AusTrakka and MDU PHL (VIC)
- Ms Tuyet Hoang, AusTrakka
- Ms Amy Black, Australian CDC
- Dr Michel Watson, Australian CDC
AusTrakka National Analysis Team (ANAT)
- Dr Kristy Horan, Bioinformatician, MDU PHL (VIC)
- Dr Binit Lamichhane, Bioinformatician, PathWest (WA)
- Dr Koen Vandelannoote, Bioinformatician, Royal Hobart (TAS)
- Ms Krystalyn Martin, Genomic Epidemiologist, PEHRL (QLD)
- Ms Mathilda Wilmot, Genomic Epidemiologist, MDU PHL (VIC)
- Dr Connie Lam, Genomic Epidemiologist, ICPMR (NSW)
- Dr Alicia Arnott, Genomic Epidemiologist, VIDRL (VIC)
- Dr Heather Wilson, ACT Pathology (ACT)
Leadership Team
- Prof Benjamin Howden, Clinical and public health
- Prof Torsten Seemann, Bioinformatics and data sharing
- Ms Tuyet Hoang, Governance and policy
- Dr Clare Sloggett, Platform Architect
- Ms Amy Corbett, Program Manager
AusTrakka Development Team
- Dr Clare Sloggett, Lead Developer
- Mr Samuel Carswell, Lead DevOps
- Mr Mann Sheth, Software Engineer
- Ms Jolene Langevin, Software Engineer
AusTrakka Co-Founder
Dr Anders Gonçalves da Silva
Co-founder & Lead Developer
Dr Anders Gonçalves da Silva co-founded AusTrakka alongside Prof. Torsten Seemann and played a pivotal role in shaping the platform into a nationally significant public health genomics resource. A highly skilled computational evolutionary biologist, he brought expertise in population genetics, bioinformatics, and data analysis to AusTrakka.
Dr Gonçalves da Silva passed away in 2023, but his contributions remain foundational to the program's ongoing success.
Previous Members and Contributors
- Dr Ceyhun Güngör, AusTrakka Project Manager
- Mr Vi Phu, Senior Software Engineer
- Dr Caitlin Selway, AusTrakka NAT Bioinformatician
- Ms Linh Nguyen, AusTrakka NAT Bioinformatician
- Dr Shona Chandra, AusTrakka NAT Genomic Epidemiologist
- Dr Wytamma Wirth, Software Engineer
- Ms Erin Flynn, AusTrakka NAT Genomic Epidemiologist
- Dr Daniel Knight, AusTrakka NAT Genomic Epidemiologist