Toby Hughes

I hold a PhD in genetics from the University of Adelaide and I currently work as a Professor in the Adelaide Dental School. I lead the Craniofacial Biology Research Group. Our group has spent the past 30 years, with continuous support from the NHMRC, assembling a large collection of longitudinal dental records from Australian twins/sib-pairs and their families. The collection is unique within Australia and one of very few worldwide. I have been conducting research on these data, with the aim of identifying genetic and environmental influences on craniofacial growth and development, and, more recently, oral health . The group is now entering an exciting new phase of research, making use of modern molecular genetic techniques to identify genes associated with dental development and oral health, and using machine learning approaches to improve efficiencies in our workflows.