Date/Time
Date(s) - Tue 7 July
14:00 - 14:45
Asia Pacific Genetics Seminar Series
Dr Joanna Achinger-Kawecka (Adelaide University, SAiGENCI) will be presenting live from her Ross Crozier Medal Conference Talk at the Genetics Society of Australasia Conference in Brisbane
Registration is required at the following link.
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Dr Joanna Achinger-Kawecka is a Laboratory Head at the South Australian immunoGENomics Cancer Institute (SAiGENCI), Adelaide University. She completed her PhD in cancer epigenetics at the University of Tubingen, Germany, supported by the Marie Curie Fellowship.
Her work has significantly advanced the understanding of the 3D genome and epigenome in cancer, including the development of innovative technologies and bioinformatics for mapping 3D chromatin structure in cancer cells.
Her research has been recognized by numerous awards including the Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellowship (2026), Genetics Society of Australasia Ross Crozier Medal (2026), National Breast Cancer Foundation Fellowships (2024, 2021) and Prostate Cancer Foundation Australia Young Investigator Award (2022).
She joined SAiGENCI in 2024, where she established the 3D Chromatin Organisation Laboratory. The lab integrates computational biology, functional genomics, and translational research to explore the principles of 3D genome folding and gene deregulation in rare and hard-to-treat cancers.