Research Projects
The burgeoning pandemic of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) bacterial pathogens poses a major threat to global health. In Australia alone, 6.5 deaths...
Supervisor: Dr Jane Hawkey
UTIs are extremely common, affecting >400-million people worldwide annually. The burden of UTIs is increasing globally and is complicated by...
Supervisor: Dr Iain Abbott
Serratia marcescens is a Gram negative bacterium that is an emerging cause of healthcare-associated infections and is increasingly recognised as a...
Supervisor: Dr Nenad Macesic
Organism-specific interpretation of antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) data is standard in clinical microbiology, with rules regularly...
Supervisor: Dr Jane Hawkey
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most significant and immediate threats to health in Australia and globally. We are working on harnessing...
Supervisor: Dr Nenad Macesic
Klebsiella oxytoca is a Gram-negative bacterium that is increasingly recognised as an important cause of hospital-associated infections, including...
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Wyres
Exploring antimicrobial resistance plasmid diversity at a single hospital network in a 7-year period
Plasmid transmission between bacteria of the same or different species is an important driver of genetic diversity, bacterial adaptation and...
Supervisor: Dr Margaret Lam
Klebsiella pneumoniae is a major cause of antibiotic resistant hospital-associated infections that can be extremely difficult to treat. The World...
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Wyres
Transplantation is a life-saving procedure for patients with end-stage organ disease, but requires life-long immunosuppressive medications to prevent...
Supervisor: Brad Gardiner
Transplantation is a life-saving procedure for patients with end-stage organ disease, but requires immunosuppressive medications to prevent rejection...
Supervisor: Brad Gardiner
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an urgent global health challenge that threatens our healthcare system and many of the advances of modern medicine...
Supervisor: Dr Nenad Macesic
Klebsiella pneumoniae is a major cause of antibiotic resistant hospital-associated infections that can be extremely difficult to treat. The World...
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Wyres
Multi-drug resistance in Gram-negative bacteria (MDR-GNB) is a global health challenge that threatens many medical advances. Infections caused by MDR...
Supervisor: Dr Nenad Macesic
Anti-HIV therapy suppresses HIV replication and prevents AIDS, however HIV currently cannot be cured and continuous, life-long therapy is required....
Supervisor: Dr Anna Hearps
Shigella and enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC) are important human pathogens that cause severe diarrhoea and dysentery. Despite the fact that they are...
Supervisor: Dr Jane Hawkey
Natural Killer (NK) cells are innate immune cells which play an important role in eliminating malignant and virally-infected cells but emerging...
Supervisor: Dr Anna Hearps