My PhD is from the University of Exeter, UK, in computer science, AI and machine learning. I was a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at The University of Queensland. I was a senior research fellow in the Institute for Molecular Bioscience before my current appointment as Associate Professor at the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences. I am the Director of Bioinformatics postgraduate programs.

I am leading a bioinformatics research group, and we are working on a number of research projects (see here for some official info). Over the years I have been awarded funding from various grant agencies, including the Australian Research Council and National Health and Medical Research Council. With biological data available at phenomenal scales, we use a lot of data driven and algorithmic approaches to solve a range of problems in genomics, molecular and systems biology. Sequence analysis, regulatory genomics and phylogenetics are major themes in the group. We are also developing tools for exploring the evolution of proteins, with applications in protein engineering. We work closely with collaborators across the disciplines, including genomics, genetics, stem and developmental biology, biochemistry and structural biology.

We publish our work in key journals such as Bioinformatics and Nucleic Acids Research; check out citations to my papers on Google Scholar or download the papers by looking them up here.

You can contact me at m.boden@uq.edu.au. You can visit me in Molecular Biosciences building (76), level 3 room 330.

Dec 2014, speaking at TU Munich, photo courtesy of Burkhard Rost