Project title
Epigenomics of Body Fat Traits in the Norfolk Island Population
Supervisory Team
Principal Supervisor: Associate Professor Rod Lea
Associate Supervisor: Distinguished Professor Lyn Griffiths
Project description
Van’s project is to identify genes and loci that are associated with body fat traits. During her MPhil candidature, she has been successfully articulated to a PhD in 2020 and is continuing to expand her works on understanding the epigentics aging and the heritability of loci in relation to body fat traits.
Short Biography
After working as a research assistant in a biostatistics group in Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in 2017, Van was awarded the Australian Government Research Training Program scholarship to commence an MPhil at QUT and became a member of the Genomic Research Centre (GRC) in 2019.
Education
2016 Postgraduate diploma in science (Genetics), University of Otago, New Zealand
2014 Bachelor of Biotechnology, International University, Vietnam National Universities