Rate My Professor Tanya Golubchik

Associate Professor Tanya Golubchik is a computational microbiologist serving as NHMRC Principal Research Fellow at the Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. She began her academic journey at the University of Sydney, majoring in biology and computer science, and earned her PhD in molecular biology from the institution. Following her doctorate, Golubchik held a postdoctoral position at the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, employing genotyping to track pneumococcal vaccine escape variants. She subsequently worked at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford, analyzing within-host diversity, evolution, and transmission of bacterial pathogens such as Staphylococcus aureus using next-generation sequencing data. She contributed to the Modernising Medical Microbiology consortium, pioneering early microbial genomic epidemiology systems. From 2016 to 2021, based at Oxford's Big Data Institute, she collaborated with the PANGEA-HIV consortium on HIV genomics, developing a machine learning model for subtype-agnostic time-since-infection estimates, and advanced targeted metagenomics through the Oxford Viromics group. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she led SARS-CoV-2 sequencing analyses for the COG-UK Consortium. Golubchik returned to the University of Sydney in 2022.