Miss. Tessa MacNish

I completed my dissertation project for UWA’s Master of Bioinformatics with the applied bioinformatics group in 2023. My project aimed to construct and visualise a multi-species Brassica graph pangenome.

I started my PhD within the group in 2024. My PhD project is focused on improving trait prediction and trait association methods through the use of haplotypes and machine learning. As part of my PhD I have developed an R package called HaploVar, which is designed to be used as part of a GWAS or genomic selection pipelines.