Gene Tyson Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2019

Gene Tyson

Professor Tyson is a microbial ecologist and world-renowned expert in culture-independent molecular approaches and bioinformatics for characterising microbial communities. Over the last decade, Professor Tyson has been at the forefront in the development and application of culture-independent molecular approaches that provide direct access to microbial “dark matter”. His team actively develop new ways to analyse metagenomic, metatranscriptomic and single cell data. As Director of the Centre for Microbiome Research (CMR) at Queensland University of Technology, his group employs the meta-omic approaches he helped pioneer to investigate microbial communities in a wide range of habitats. In 2018, he co-founded Microba (Microba.com), a start-up company focusing on developing new therapeutics from the gut microbiome. To date, over 12,000 Australians have made use of the service and it is being extended into Europe and the US via commercial partners Synlab and Promagen. Professor Tyson’s research discoveries have been recognized by the Australian Society for Microbiology, who awarded him the Frank Fenner Award in 2015, and International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME), who named him Young Investigator Award in 2016. In 2019, he was recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher (top 1% of cited scientists).