Oscar Delaney

Honours Student

I majored in genetics, maths, and philosophy in my science/arts dual degree at UQ, and then worked on computational modelling of antibiotic resistance evolution, considering recombination, resource constraints and population bottlenecks. Some of the key troubles with this approach are a) the real world isn’t as neat and tidy as our model, and b) even our model is sufficiently big and messy that results can be hard to interpret. However, I think these are surmountable barriers and that computer simulations are an interesting addition to lab and clinical work. And I think coding is pretty fun!