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
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
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
The Mpox virus is endemic in West and Central African countries. In 2022, the WHO declared Mpox a global health emergency as infections have spread...
Supervisor: Dr Gabriela Khoury
Clostridium difficile is recognised as the major cause of nosocomial diarrhoea in Australian hospitals and in hospitals worldwide. Chronic colitis...
Supervisor: Professor Dena Lyras
The spleen is an important organ of the immune system and it is often removed for the treatment of different medical conditions, to perform surgery...
Supervisor: Dr Gabriela Khoury
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