Rate My Professor Luke Silver

Dr Luke Silver is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sydney. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics and Conservation Genomics at the University of Sydney between 2020 and 2023. His research focuses on generating and using genomic and transcriptomic resources for threatened Australian species. He has investigated the evolution of the immune system and studied how diversity within immune genes is linked to disease traits. Dr Silver has experience in the characterisation of complex immune gene families, in particular the major histocompatibility complex, which is a key component of the adaptive immune system.