Tim Mercer specialises in genomics, transcriptomics and synthetic biology.
Professor Timothy Mercer is a Group Leader at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) at The University of Queensland where he is the Scientific Director of the BASE nucleic-acid synthesis facility. He also leads a diverse laboratory and bioinformatic research group into the expression and splicing of synthetic genes.
Prior to this, he was Group Leader at the Garvan Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, where he pioneered the use of synthetic RNA and DNA controls to improve the accuracy of clinical genome sequencing. He also developed targeted RNA sequencing approaches for the diagnosis of fusion genes in cancer. Together, this reflects his ongoing interest in the development of genome biotechnologies.
Before joining the Garvan, Tim Mercer has a PhD in Genomics from UQ and completed postdoctoral studies in transcriptomics, long-noncoding RNAs and splicing at Broad Institute, United States, Centre for Gene Regulation, Spain, and Max Plank Institute for Cell Biology, Germany.
