Melissa Davis PhD

Dr. Melissa Davis is a cancer systems biologist, with a background in genetics and computational cell biology and expertise in the analysis of genome-scale regulatory networks and knowledge-based modelling. Melissa did her PhD at the University of Queensland, working on the functional characterisation of mammalian transcriptomes, and her post-doctoral training in the Computational Biology division of the Institute for Molecular Biosciences before moving to the NICTA Victorian Research Laboratory in 2013. Melissa is currently a Senior Research Fellow in Computational Systems Biology at the University of Melbourne’s Systems Biology Laboratory, and she has recently been awarded a four year NBCF Fellowship to study the systems biology of epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity in breast cancer as part of the national EMPathy Breast Cancer Network. Melissa specialises in the integration of genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic data with knowledge-based network models to understand the regulatory logic of mammalian systems, including the impact of the epigenetic landscape on gene regulation.