Dr. Lyndal Henden

Biography

Lyndal Henden is a Senior Research Fellow at Macquarie University, focusing on uncovering genetic causes of Motor Neuron Disease (MND) and Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). She completed her PhD in 2017 at the Walter Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, where she developed statistical methods to identify cryptic relatedness in the human genome and microorganisms that cause disease. Her research aims to improve gene screening approaches and deepen the understanding of biological mechanisms underlying MND and FTD. Dr. Henden is particularly interested in hard-to-detect genetic changes and works with large international cohorts to identify candidate loci and screen for new gene mutations associated with these diseases. Her findings carry important implications for genetic counseling and the development of new therapeutic targets. In her teaching role, she convenes units in Clinical Bioinformatics and Biostatistics and has taught various courses in Genomics and Medical Informatics.

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