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Email

t.seemann@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Lead Bioinformatician, MDU PHL and DAMG
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Education
PhD
Monash University
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
Monash University
ORCID

0000-0001-6046-610X

Prof Torsten Seemann

Lead Bioinformatician, MDU PHL and DAMG
Department of Microbiology and Immunology

239 Scholarly works
13 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Rising burden of enterococcal bacteremia in Victoria, Australia: population-based incidence and antimicrobial resistance trends from three decades of surveillance
    DOI: 10.1128/aac.01526-25
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Advancing genomics for waterborne pathogen surveillance in Australia
    DOI: 10.1016/j.lanwpc.2026.101828
  • 2020

    Research Grant

    Tracking Covid-19 Using Genomics
  • 2019

    Journal article

    Bridging of Neisseria gonorrhoeae lineages across sexual networks in the HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis era
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12053-4
  • 2018

    Journal article

    Increasing tolerance of hospital Enterococcus faecium to handwash alcohols
    DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aar6115
  • 2018

    Research Grant

    An Evidence Based Framework for Establishing Public Health Microbial Genomics in Australia
  • 2018

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    An Evidence Based Framework for Establishing Public Health Microbial Genomics in Australia
Torsten Seemann

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2018
ABACBS 2019 Open Source and Open Science Award Australian Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Society
1996
Australian Postgraduate Award Monash University
1995
Dean's Fellow - Faculty of Science Monash University

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Exploration of the genomic diversity of third-generation cephalosporin-resistant Escherichia coli in Australian clinical settings
    DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.001554
  • 2025

    Journal article

    BenchAMRking: a Galaxy-based platform for illustrating the major issues associated with current antimicrobial resistance (AMR) gene prediction workflows
    DOI: 10.1186/s12864-024-11158-5
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Publisher Correction: Parameters for one health genomic surveillance of Escherichia coli from Australia (Nature Communications, (2025), 16, 1, (17), 10.1038/s41467-024-55103-2)
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58600-0
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Bringing tuberculosis genomics to the clinic: development and validation of a comprehensive pipeline to predict antimicrobial susceptibility from genomic data, accredited to ISO standards
    DOI: 10.1016/j.landig.2025.100939
  • 2025

    Journal article

    The impact of active screening strategies to identify and control multidrug-resistant organism transmission in healthcare settings
    DOI: 10.1016/j.idh.2025.10.117
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Communicable diseases genomics network: promoting and harmonising pathogen genomics implementation for public health in Australia
    DOI: 10.1016/j.lanwpc.2025.101692
  • 2025

    Dataset

    Trained weights for Barbet
    DOI: 10.26188/29578964
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Transposon-directed insertion-site sequencing (TraDIS) analysis of Enterococcus faecium using nanopore sequencing and a WebAssembly analysis platform
    DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.00628-25

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