Research Projects
Our laboratory aims to create new knowledge in host-pathogen interactions driven by intracellular bacterial pathogens. Our research team has projects...
Supervisor: Professor Hayley Newton
This project aims to determine how conjugative antibiotic resistance and toxin plasmids are transferred in this important pathogenic bacterium.
Supervisor: Professor Julian Rood
Viruses pose one of the grand challenges to human and animal health globally and within Australia. Viral disease progression is critically dependent...
Supervisor: Dr Gregory Moseley
This project aims to determine how antibiotic resistance and toxin plasmids are replicated and maintained in this important bacterial pathogen
Supervisor: Professor Julian Rood
Malaria is one of the most devastating infectious diseases worldwide, causing major public health, social and economic problems globally. The lack of...
Supervisor: Professor Christian Doerig
Heme is an essential nutrient for the bacterial pathogen Haemophilus influenzae, which causes serious respiratory infections, otitis media and...
Supervisor: Dr Rhys Grinter
Iron is essential for bacterial growth, but it is severely limited in most environments. Bacteria have evolved clever systems to acquire this...
Supervisor: Dr Francesca Short
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative bacterium that is one of the most common pathogens of people with cystic fibrosis. This organism causes...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor John Boyce
FIKK kinases are unique among apicomplexan parasites. Interestingly the genome of P. falciparum encodes 20 FIKK kinases, but very little is known...
Supervisor: Professor Brian Cooke
Clostridium difficile is recognised as the major cause of nosocomial diarrhoea in Australian hospitals and in hospitals worldwide. Chronic colitis...
Supervisor: Professor Dena Lyras
Antibiotics are a precious and diminishing resource. There is a desperate need to reduce or replace the use of antibiotics to treat bacterial...
Supervisor: Professor Dena Lyras