Professor Christine Wells is the Chair of Stem Cell Systems, an ARC Future Fellow and Founding Director of the University of Melbourne's Centre for Stem Cell Systems. Christine is a genome biologist interested in tissue injury and repair. She leads a program of research across three pillars of impact and output: (1) collaboration platforms for data integration and visualization for the stem cell community; (2) bioinformatics method development; and (3) gene discovery and characterization of stem cell subsets and innate immune cells.
Christine leads the Stemformatics.org stem cell collaboration resource, which has >7000 users worldwide, and which hosts the largest compendium of curated stem cell data with >350 public stem cell datasets consisting of ~10,000 stem cell samples, used to generate definitive signatures of stem cell subsets and their differentiated progeny.