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Dr. Mitchell Cummins is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), affiliated with the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences. His research focuses on RNA Biology, evolution, neurodevelopment, and the role of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in cognition. He works in the lab of SHARP Professor John Mattick (https://www.lncrna.net/).
- Education: PhD in Anatomy from the University of Newcastle (supervised by Associate Professor Doug Smith).
His research integrates bioinformatics (genome multi-alignment, DNA/RNA-seq, SNP analysis), molecular biology (CRISPR/Cas9, antisense oligonucleotides), imaging (RNAscope, immunofluorescence), and behavioral phenotyping. He co-developed dedUCE (https://github.com/slimsuite/deduce), a program for identifying ultraconserved elements (UCEs) in vertebrate genomes, with key findings published in Molecular Biology and Evolution (2024) and Geroscience (2025).
In his PhD work, he studied age-related changes in the blood-brain barrier, neuroimmune pathways, and transposable elements in the aging central nervous system (CNS), leading to publications in Molecular Pain (2020) and Geroscience (2025).
