Dr Melanie Lehman
Position:
- Research Fellow, Australian Prostate Cancer Reseach Centre-Queensland, Queensland University of Technology
Biography:
Dr Lehman received a BSc from the University of Alberta (cell biotechnology), a certificate in software engineering from Carleton University, a PhD from the University of British Columbia (computational biology and prostate cancer) and currently holds a joint position as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Vancouver Prostate Centre and Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre-Queensland.
She has worked for the past 10 years in prostate cancer research utilizing computational approaches to analyse genome-wide profiling data from cell lines, animal models, and human tissue samples.
Dr Lehman has integrated data from high density microarrays and next-generation sequencing (RNA, small RNA, ChIP, and DNA) technologies to study the regulation and interplay of protein-coding and non-coding RNAs in steroid response and treatment resistance.
computational biology, RNA sequencing, non-coding RNA, androgen response, treatment resistance.
