Dr Robert Weatheritt

Dr Robert Weatheritt

Senior Research Fellow

PhD

Science
School of Biotech & Biomolecular Science

Associate Professor Robert Weatheritt is an ARC Future Fellow, an EMBL Australia Group Leader at BABS in UNSW Sydney and a Lab Head at the Garvan Institute. Dr. Weatheritt received his PhD from EMBL Heidelberg and then proceeded to undertaken a Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge and the University of Toronto. Dr. Weatheritt opened his lab in 2018 focusing on combining data data approaches with CRISPR screening approaches and transcriptomics to understand the role of RNA in d...

E-mail
r.weatheritt@garvan.org.au
Location
School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences

  • NSW Health RNA Future Leaders Program (2022-2025)
    • Title: Developing in vivo CRISPR RNA engineering to prevent disease
  • Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2022-2026)
    • Title: Dissecting cell cycle regulation using programmable gene editing technology
  • NSW Cancer Council Grant (2021-2024)
    • Title: What makes triple-negative breast cancer tumours more likely to spread beyond the breast? 
  • NSW Cancer Institute Fellowship (2021-2024)
    • P-bodies: a novel mechanism driving triple negative breast cancer?
  • ARC Discovery Project Grant (2020-2023) with Irinia Voineagu (UNSW Sydney)
    • Title: Investigating the biogenesis and function of circular RNAs in the brain

Alternative splicing, Intrinsically disordered regions, Post-transcriptional regulation, Neuroscience, Autism-spectrum disorder, RNA, Proteomics, Structural Bioinformatics, RNA-Seq

My Research Supervision

Peter Kjer Hansen

Helen King

Daisy Kavanagh

My Teaching

I convene the 3rd year course BABS3291 Genes, Genomes and Evolution