About
Peter Allen is an early-career post-doctoral research scientist under the guidance of Professor Joseph Powell at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney. Peter earned his doctorate in genetics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he researched the role of epigenetics in autoimmune diseases such as Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Systemic Sclerosis. Part of his doctoral work involved using single cell multiomics to measure cell type specific gene expression and trace their cellular lineage in a immune cell context.
In his postdoctoral research, he aims to use single cell technologies to gain insight into the cellular mechanisms that may contribute to the development of ILDs.