Researcher Profiles
Researcher Profiles
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Name | Research Focus | Key Skills | Departments and Centres |
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Dr Catarina F Almeida | NKT cells, TCR-Ag Recognition, ligand discovery | cell culture, flow cytometry, single cell PCR (TCR repertoire), structural biology | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Paul Angel | Bioinformatics, data integration, transcriptomics, stemcells | bioinformatics, transcriptomics, computational modelling, statistics | Anatomy and Physiology |
Dr Annabell Bachem | Microbiota and T cells | flow cytometry, mouse/rat models, cell culture | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Stephanie Neville | Chemical biology of host-pneumococcal interactions | molecular biology, protein biochemistry, bacteriology, metallobiology | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Alice Brandli | Systemic health and eye disease | immunohistochemistry, molecular biology, mouse/rat models, meta analysis and systematic reviews | Anatomy and Physiology |
Dr Zhenjun Chen | MAIT immunity and microbe infections | mouse/rat models, flow cytometry, molecular biology, immunotherapy | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Steffi Cheung | Structural biology | crystallography, structural biology, protein purification, biophysical assays | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Michelle P Christie | Pore-forming proteins, protein interactions, structural biology, infection, biosensors | protein biochemistry, structural biology, protein-interaction studies | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Brendon Chua | Design and development of vaccine and therapeutic interventions, host protection against infectious diseases | cell biology, flow cytometry, vaccine design, peptide chemistry | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Bliss Cunningham | Metal ions in pneumococcal infections | mouse/rat models, molecular biology, microbiology | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Dezerae Cox | Proteome (mis)foldedness in neurodegenerative disease | cell culture, proteomics, recombinant protein production, kinetic assays | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Ricardo De Paoli-Iseppi | Nanopore sequencing in neuropsychiatric disorders | genomics, PCR, long-read sequencing, non-model organisms | Anatomy and Physiology |
Dr Sapna Devi | Neural regulation of lymphocyte migration | microscopy, flow cytometry, intravital microscopy, whole organ imaging | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Maximilien Evrard | Resident-Memory T cells | mouse/rat models, flow cytometry, bioinformatics, 2-photon microscopy | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Daniel Fernandez-Ruiz | Immunology, malaria, vaccines | cell biology, flow cytometry, vaccine adjuvants, liver immunology | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr William Figgett | Therapeutics development for B-cell malignancies | mouse/rat models, bioinformatics, omics and multivariate statistics, machine learning, molecular dynamics simulations, B-cell biology | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Jess Fletcher | Glial cell biology, neurotrophins, multiple sclerosis, neurodegeneration | cell biology, fluorescence microscopy, image analysis, animal models of demyelinating disease | Anatomy and Physiology |
Dr Raissa Fonseca | Resident memory T cell development | flow cytometry, fluorescence microscopy | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Jaime Foong | Mature and developing enteric nervous system | neuroscience, immunohistochemistry, calcium imaging of live cells, in vitro gut physiology assays | Anatomy and Physiology |
Dr Katherine Ganio | Metalloproteomics of host-pathogen interactions | mass spectrometry, protein biochemistry, bioanalytical chemistry, ICP-MS | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Nicholas A. Gherardin | T cell Immunology | flow cytometry, protein biochemistry, human immunology, nanobody production | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Justin P. Hardee | Regulation of skeletal muscle plasticity | cell biology, mouse/rat models, neuromuscular stimulation, immunohistochemistry | |
Dr Damián Hernández | Diseases modelling with cerebral organoids | stem cells, CRISPR, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), neuroscience | Anatomy and Physiology |
Dr James Hilton | Mechanisms of neurodegeneration | protein biochemistry, mouse/rat models, mass spectrometry, neuroscience | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Katharina Hochheiser | T-cell mediated immune responses in peripheral tissues | mouse/rat models, CRISPR, flow cytometry, gene editing | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Darryl Johnson | Innate T cell biology | fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry, mouse models, cell culture | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Jennifer Juno | Unconventional T cells and Tfh | flow cytometry, RNA seq, cell cultures, Macaque models of human infections | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Mohsen Kazemi | Cryo-electron microscopy (Single Particle Analysis, Sub-Tomogram Averaging) | cryo-electron microscopy, structural biology, Single Particle Analysis, Sub-Tomogram Imaging | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Stacey Keenan | Metabolism, fatty liver disease, type 2 diabetes, lipid metabolism, obesity | mouse/rat models, surgery, in vitro/in vivo/ex vivo metabolic measurements, radiometric and tracer studies | |
Dr Catherine Kennedy | B cell mediated pathologies | mouse/rat models, molecular biology, microbiology | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Hui-Fern Koay | T-cell development, biology and immunology | flow cytometry, primary cell and cell line culture, mouse models, thymic organoids, RNAseq | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Marios Koutsakos | Human immunology, influenza virology | flow cytometry, TCR repertoire analysis, influenza virus plaque assays | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Meina Li | Mechanopharmacology in lung health | cell biology, proteomics, RNAseq, CRISPR, animal models | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Jeff Liddell | Pathobiology of neurodegeneration | primary neural cell culture and co-culture systems, ICP-MS elemental analysis (anatomical, bulk and micro), metallobiology, live-cell imaging | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Grace Lidgerwood | Stem cell disease modelling | stem cells, cell biology, retinal biology, single cell RNA sequencing | Anatomy and Physiology |
Dr Haiyin Liu | Receptor ubiquitination in immunity | flow cytometry, CRISPR, ubiquitin analysis, biochemistry | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Jieqiong Lou | Chromatin organisation, light microscopy | fluorescence microscopy, cell biology, protein dynamics, membrane protein signaling and trafficking | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Christophe Macri | Dendritic cells, vaccination, checkpoint inhibitors | flow cytometry, CRISPR, mouse animal model, cell culture | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Alice McGovern | Respiratory Neuroscience | surgery, in vivo physiology, viral tracing, single cell RNAseq | Anatomy and Physiology |
Dr Emma McHugh | Alternative splicing in Plasmodium falciparum | fluorescence microscopy, cell biology, molecular biology, CRISPR | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Rachel McQuade | Brain-gut axis in Parkinson's Disease | mouse/rat models, neuroscience, ex vivo colonic motility and secretion, in vivo gastrointestinal transit | Anatomy and Physiology |
Dr Maria Menezes | Malaria, vaccine, memory, liver, cd8 | flow cytometry, fluorescence microscopy, malaria, mouse models | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Aung Aung Kywe Moe | Central circuitry of vagal stimulation | behavioural assays, mouse/rat models, optogenetics, structural and functional MRI in rodents | Anatomy and Physiology |
Dr Michael Morgan | Pain, neuroscience, inflammation, pharmacology | behavioural assays, proteomics, mouse/rat models, high throughput assays | Anatomy and Physiology |
Dr Sara Nikseresht | Cell death mechanisms in neurodegenerative disease | mouse/rat models, cell culture | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Susan Northfield | Peptide and Medicinal Chemistry | peptide chemistry, medicinal chemistry, drug design, neuroscience | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Dalia Ponce | Proteomics and therapeutics development | protein biochemistry, molecular biology, mass spectrometry, pharmacology and toxicology | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Ruslan Pustovit | Enteric nervous system, bowel motility, ghrelin, constipation, spinal cord injury | neuroscience, surgery, animal physiology, neurogastroenterology | Anatomy and Physiology |
Dr Pin Shie Quah | Immune defence against Citrobacter rodentium | cell biology, flow cytometry, gene expression, mouse models | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Julio Rodriguez | Mosquito borne viruses | virology, cell biology, mosquito/insect models, cell culture | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Elena Schneider-Futschik | Pharmacology of respiratory disease treatments | cell biology, cell culture, pharmacology & toxicology, drug-drug interactions | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Mark B Schultz | Bioinformatics genomics antimicrobial resistance bacteria | bioinformatics, genomics, metagenomics, microbiomics | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Ashish Sethi | Solution NMR, protein structure and dynamics, protein-protein/peptide interaction, fragment based drug designing | protein biochemistry, structural biology, solution NMR, protein structure determination | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Lincon Stamp | Enteric nervous system stem cells | stem cells, neuroscience, cell biology | Anatomy and Physiology |
Dr Sanda Stankovic | NK cells, cancer immunology | cell biology, gene expression, flow cytometry, mouse models of infection and disease | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Aimee Tan | Metals in molecular microbiology | molecular biology, gene expression, animal model, PCR and cloning | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr David Thomas | Exploring Coxiella effector proteins | cell culture, fluorescence microscopy, molecular biology, cell biology | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Nancy Wang | T cell immunity against bacteria | flow cytometry, mouse/rat models, T cell stimulation assays, cytokine analysis | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Kevin Watt | Mechanisms regulating skeletal muscle growth | cell biology, molecular biology, mouse/rat models, surgery | |
Dr Claire Weekley | Metals and metalloproteins in biology | X-ray absorbance spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescence microscopy, protein biochemistry, structural biology | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Nicole Wiedmann | Neural circuitry | neuroscience, fluorescence microscopy, small rodent surgery | Anatomy and Physiology |
Dr Claire Gorrie | Microbiology, bioinformatics, genomics, computational biology | bioinformatics, genomics, antimicrobial resistance, hospital transmission analysis | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Angeline Ferdinand | Microbial genomics and public health | genomics, health program evaluation, health systems | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Eve Maunders | Metal ion homeostasis | molecular biology, transcriptomics, microbiology, gene expression | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Svenja Fritzlar | Host-factors that restrict influenza infections | fluorescence microscopy, molecular biology, viral infections, flow cytometry | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Daniel Bird | Developmental biology, Reproductive Biology, Endocrinology | immunohistochemistry, mouse/rat models, molecular biology | Anatomy and Physiology |
Dr Paula Miotto | Mitochondrial function, skeletal muscle, liver, bone, metabolism/physiology | mitochondrial function, metabolism/physiology, biochemical adaptations | |
Dr Kathryn Munro | Neurons, synaptic plasticity, Alzheimer's disease | neuroscience, cell culture, behavioural assays, immunohistochemistry | Anatomy and Physiology |
Dr Amar Abdullah | TBI mouse model neurotoxicity assay | behavioural assays, cell culture, QPCR histology western blot microscopy, TBI model iv ip | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Lou Fourriere | Intracellular trafficking in Alzheimer's disease | cell biology, fluorescence microscopy, RUSH system, neurobiology | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Hamid Soleimaninejad | Optical microscopy and Imaging | microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, high end optical microscopy such as FRET/ FLIM / FAIM/ RICS /FCS | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Laura Cook | Human antigen-specific CD4+ T cells | flow cytometry, cell culture, functional T cell assays, cytokine detection | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr John-Paul Fuller-Jackson | Spinal cord innervation of pelvis | neuroscience, immunohistochemistry, Widefield microscopy, Lightsheet microscopy | Anatomy and Physiology |
Dr Veronica Uribe Sokolov | Cardiovascular developmental biology | microscopy, molecular biology, zebrafish embryology, cardiac development | |
Dr Lee Yeoh | Epigenetics and transcriptomics in malaria | bioinformatics, CRISPR, molecular biology, genomics | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Sonia Guilas* | Immunology, Vaccine, Malaria, Memory CD8+T cells | mouse/rat models, flow cytometry, fluorescent microscopy, cell culture | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Makhala Khammy | Cardiovascular Physiology and Pharmacology, Cannabinoids, Endocannabinoids, Hypertension | surgery, mouse/rat models, in vivo haemodynamic monitoring, ex vivo assessment of cardiac and vascular function, amperometry | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Nicole Siddall | Genetics Drosophila Stem Cells Reproduction | cell biology, fluorescence microscopy | Anatomy and Physiology |
Dr Calvin Eiber | Computational modelling peripheral neural interfaces | neuroscience, computational modelling, MATLAB and neuron anatomically-detailed models of neural cells, circuits, and systems, computational geometry | Anatomy and Physiology |
Dr Ellie Cho | Image analysis, Fluorescence Microscopy | Image analysis, fluorescence microscopy, Immunohistochemistry | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Wen Shi Lee | Antibodies against HIV and SARS-CoV-2 | cell culture, flow cytometry, ADCC assays, Viral infection assays | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Jessica Briffa | Pregnancy, Developmental Biology, Interventions, Molecular Biology | mouse/rat models, molecular biology, histology | |
Dr Oanh Nguyen | Human immune responses to viral infections | cell biology, flow cytometry, clinical cohorts, single-cell transcriptomics | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Mariana Del Rosso de Melo | Central regulation of breathing and blood pressure | immunohistochemistry, neuroscience, rat models/electromyography, optogenetics/chemogenetics | |
Dr Maciej Daniszewski | Stem cell-based disease modelling | cell culture, stem cells, neuroscience, single-cell RNA sequencing | Anatomy and Physiology |
Dr Melinda Ashcroft | Genomic epidemiology of infectious diseases | bioinformatics, genomics, computational microbiology | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Patrick Schriek | Biology of dendritic cells and their antigen presentation | cell biology, flow cytometry, protein biochemistry, mouse models | Biochemistry and Pharmacology; Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Kevin John Selva | Mucosal antibody responses during infection | cell culture, flow cytometry, bead-based multiplex assays, activation/inhibition cell-based assays | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Kristy Swiderski | Regulation of skeletal muscle health | cell culture, mouse/rat models, protein analysis, cell biology | Anatomy and Physiology |
Dr Amelia Nash | Enteric nervous system glia, glioma | neuroscience, cell biology, Immunohistochemistry, Cell culture | Anatomy and Physiology |
Dr Ash Porter | Zoonotic viral evolution, virus-host relationships | genomics, bioinformatics, Evolutionary biology, Virology | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Bethany Anderson | Proteases, Oral Cancer | protein biochemistry, cell culture, mouse/rat models, molecular biology | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Gabriela Segal | Imaging | fluorescence microscopy, immunohistochemistry, microscopy, Lightsheet microscopy, clearing, | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
Dr Calum Walsh | Bioinformatics, Microbiome, Metagenomics, Genomics, Transcriptomics | bioinformatics, genomics, metagenomics, microbial ecology | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Mitra Ashayeripanah | Mouse and Human Dendritic cells, mouse models of infection and inflammation | mouse/rat models, flow cytometry, fluorescence microscopy, protein skills | Microbiology and Immunology |
Dr Naveen Vankadari | Cryo-electron microscopy and Infection biology | cryo-EM, molecular biology, protein biochemistry, virology | Biochemistry and Pharmacology |
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