Dr Eileen Roulis
Senior Research Fellow
Adjunct Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
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Eileen's work centres on using genomic sequencing and bioinformatics technologies to improve product safety. She leads projects on transfusion-transmitted infections and emerging risks, with a focus on how genomics can be used to complement existing testing strategies. She also leads a project in software development to predict blood group genotypes and phenotypes from genomic sequencing technologies.
Eileen obtained her PhD in Molecular Microbiology at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She is an adjunct lecturer at QUT, and has supervised a number of postgraduate students from QUT, University of Queensland, University of the Sunshine Coast and Mount Kenya University.
Awards
- Outstanding Doctoral Thesis, QUT (2016)
- Advance Queensland Research Fellowships Program (collaborator:2017–2020)
- Abbott Diagnostics Division reagent grant (CI: 2023-2024)
- School of Health Impact Grant – University of the Sunshine coast (collaborator:2025)
Leadership
- Completion of four PhD students (QUT, UQ, Mount Kenya University) and one Honours student (USC)
- Current supervision of 3 MPhil students (QUT)
- Examiner of student theses
- Member of the International Society of Blood Transfusion and Australian Society for Microbiology
Key publications
Next generation sequencing to identify iron status and individualise blood donors’ experience: Gene sequencing to improve blood donors’ experiences
2023
Blood Transfusion
doi: 10.2450/BloodTransfus.499
Low Genetic Diversity of Hepatitis B Virus Surface Gene amongst Australian Blood Donors.
2021
Viruses
13(7):1275.
Targeted exome sequencing designed for blood group, platelet, and neutrophil antigen investigations: Proof‐of‐principle study for a customized single‐test system.
2020
Transfusion
60: 2108– 2120.
Comprehensive blood group antigen profile predictions for Western Desert Indigenous Australians from whole exome sequence data
2019
Transfusion
59: 768-778.
Molecular Basis and Clinical Overview of McLeod Syndrome Compared With Other Neuroacanthocytosis Syndromes: A Review
2018
JAMA Neurol.
75(12):1554–1562.