Members

Prof Robert Bryson-Richardson

Group Leader

Rob studied Human Genetics at the University of Nottingham before moving to the Medical Research Council’s Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh to complete his PhD and begin his work using the zebrafish model system. He completed his PhD in 2003 and continued his research at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney and the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute at Monash University. He joined the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University in 2010. His focus is on clinically translatable findings to inform the diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular diseases.

Dr Lee Miles

Postdoctoral Researcher

Lee studied Genetics at University Otago, completing his Honours on Xenopus development, before moving to Monash University to begin his PhD working with the zebrafish model system. Following his PhD he generated models for muscle development at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, and investigated epithelial development and disease modelling at the Alfred Hospital, Monash University, and La Trobe University. Lee joined the Bryson-Richardson lab in the School of Biological Sciences to work on applying the latest genome editing approaches to investigate muscle development and determining the genetic basis of disease.

Dr Rita Serrano

Postdoctoral Researcher

Rita is interested in the connection between developmental genetics and medicine. She studied Biology at the University of Porto in Portugal and started her career as a research trainee in the field of Population Genetics at IPATIMUP (Portugal). Extending her curiosity for genetics research, she moved to Lisbon to complete the Masters of Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine at the New University of Lisbon in collaboration with the Institute of Molecular Medicine (Portugal). Rita is currently characterizing new genes that have been associated with neuromuscular disease, aiming to understand the underlying biology and discover targetable pathways for potential therapies.

Ms Orlen Mulia

Research Officer

Orlen has expertise in a wide range of experimental approaches, supporting the lab's research across disease modelling, mechanistic understanding, and variant analysis. Recent work has included high-throughput imaging of models to assess variants of uncertain significance and contribute to improved diagnosis for neuromuscular disease.