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Professor Greg Anderson is Deputy Director of QIMR and Head of the Iron Metabolism Laboratory.
He is interested in all aspects of the biology of iron and disorders of iron homeostasis. He...
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Dr Kathy Andrews is an ARC Future Fellow and Head of the Tropical Parasitology lab at the QIMR and Eskitis Institute, Griffith University.
Dr Andrews’ research focuses on antimalarial drug discovery and target identification.&nbs...
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Associate Professor Sassan Asgari’s research focuses on insect host-pathogen interactions, especially the role of microRNAs in the interactions.
MicroRNAs are small 20-22 nucleotide non-coding RNAs that have been shown to play signific...
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Professor Ross Barnard’s research encompasses infectious disease diagnostics, and development of new platform technologies for detection of infectious agents.
These technologies include multiplex assays for flaviviridae, influenza A, a...
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Dr. Scott Beatson’s research projects are aimed to better understand the molecular mechanisms of infectious disease by using the genomes of medically important bacteria (e.g. Escherichia coli, Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas ...
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Professor Scott Bell, a QHealth Research Fellow, is interested in the clinical impact of clonal Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic fibrosis.
The same strain of P. aeruginosa is commonly found in patients within CF centres on the ...
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Dr. Helle Bielefeldt-Ohmann is a veterinary pathologist focusing on the pathogenesis of infectious diseases, in particular zoonotic diseases and virus infections causing neuropathology.
Dr. Bielefeldt-Ohmann is championing the use of &...
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Dr. Antje Blumenthal investigates how cells of the innate immune system are activated to orchestrate the successful defence against pathogens.
Dr. Blumenthal studies how innate immune receptors, such as RP105, contribute to host cell activat...
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Professor Scott Burrows is Group Leader of the Cellular Immunology Laboratory at QIMR.
His interests are in the fields of immunology and virology, particularly in the area of CD8+ T cell control of Epste...
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Professor Robert Capon’s research group focuses on the detection, isolation, characterisation, identification, and evaluation of novel bioactive metabolites from Australian marine and terrestrial plants, animals, and microbes.
These na...
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Professor Anne Chang is a NHMRC Practitioner Fellow at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Brisbane. Prof. Chang has clinical and research interests in improving the understanding of common illnesses in children, such as chronic cough and asthma. P...
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Professor Archie Clements is head of a new Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit (IDEU) at the UQ School of Population Health.
He is an infectious disease epidemiologist with a resear...
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Dr. Jason Cole is a NHMRC Biomedical Training Fellow at the University of California San Diego. Dr. Cole’s research focuses on the invasive disease mechanism of serotype M1T1 Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus; GAS). O...
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Professor Matthew Cooper’s research focuses on the rational design and development of novel antibiotics and anti-virals active against drug-resistant pathogens. In particular, Prof. Cooper is interested in hospital-acquired infections, such as...
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Darrell Crawford is Professor of Hepatology, and Head, Discipline of Medicine, The University of Queensland.
He is a clinician with 25 years of experience with past appointments to the
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Dr. Mark Davies is utilising next generation sequencing technologies to define the genomic architecture of streptococci from regions endemic for Streptococcal infection. Apart from unearthing the genetic variability of these human path...
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Professor David Fairlie is an ARC Federation Fellow and Head of the Division of Chemistry and Structural Biology at the Institute of Molecular Bioscience.
Prof. Fairlie’s research...
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Dr Katja Fischer is heading the Scabies laboratory at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research. Scabies and associated bacterial disease is a globally increasing problem with widely underrat...
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Dr. James Fraser focuses on the human pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans, a yeast that is one of the leading causes of opportunistic fungal infections amongst individuals who are immunocompromised.
Dr. Fraser is interested to e...
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Professor Ian Frazer is the Head of the Diamantina Institute at The University of Queensland. In addition, he is the Director of Coridon, the President of Cancer Council Australia, the Chairman of the Australian Cancer Research Foundation’s Me...
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A/Prof Don Gardiner is Laboratory Head of the Malaria Biology laboratory at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research.
A/Prof Gardiner first began his professional career as a...
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Professor Keith Grimwood is the Director of the Queensland Children’s Medical Research Institute and Conjoint Professor in The University of Queensland’s
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Associate Professor Roy Hall’s research is in the study of the structure and function of flavivirus proteins, specifically West Nile virus and Chikungunya virus.
Assoc. Prof. Hall is interested in the role of these proteins in viral p...
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Dr. Ashraful Haque is a "Team Head" in Christian Engwerda's Immunology and Infection Laboratory at The Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Herston, Brisbane.
Dr. Haque's research foc...
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Professor Philip Hugenholtz’s research focuses on molecular characterisation of host-associated microbial communities, including those of healthy and diseased humans.
There is a growing appreciation that pathogens do not work in isolat...
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Dr. Ulrike Kappler’s research involves the study of metabolic pathways used by a variety of bacterial enzymes to turn over toxic sulfur compounds. In particular, the group is interested in sulfite oxidising enzymes that contribute to bacterial...
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Associate Professor Stuart Kellie’s research interests lie in the cell and molecular biology of phagocyte function.
Phagocytes, such as macrophages, play a central role in both the innate and acquired immune responses.
Aberrant...
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Professor Mark Kendall’s research interests span biomedical engineering, diagnostics, dermatology, and vaccinology.
Prof. Kendall is focused on combining these areas of study to develop novel delivery strategies of biomolecules and sti...
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Professor Alexander Khromykh is the Deputy-Director of the Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre.
Prof. Khromykh’s research focuses on the West Nile Virus (WNV), specifically the molecular mechanisms of replication, virus asse...
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Professor Glenn King’s research is focused on understanding spatiotemporal regulation of bacterial cytokinesis, with a specific emphasis on Staphylococcus aureus ("golden staph").
Golden staph is a "superbug"...
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Professor Bostjan Kobe’s research focuses on protein structure and function, with an emphasis on understanding the structural basis of intra- and inter-molecular interactions formed by these macromolecules and inferring function from structure...
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Dr Lutz Krause is a heading the Bioinformatics team at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research.
His principal...
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Associate Professor Stephen Lambert is a public health physician with an interest in the epidemiology of infectious diseases.
Dr Lambert is based at the Queensland Children's Medical Research Institute and the Queensland Health Immunisation ...
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Professor Jeffrey Lipman is the Director of Department of Intensive Care at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and the Executive Director of the
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A/Prof Mackay's clinical virology research focus aims at discovering and characterising viruses, defining their interactions and determining the clinical outcomes in the respiratory tract of children infected by them.
A/Prof Mackay's compe...
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Professor Jenny Martin is an Australian Research Council Australian Laureate Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The Universit...
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Professor James McCarthy leads a multidisciplinary research team at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research undertaking research in human parasitology and translational research in tropical medicine.
He holds a senior leadership positio...
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Professor Alastair McEwan’s research group investigates the oxidation-reduction processes in biocatalysis, regulation of gene expression, and bacterial pathogenicity.
In particular, Prof. McEwan is interested in the role of copper-bind...
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Professor Don McManus is a NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow and Senior Principal Research Fellow at QIMR, Professor of Tropical Health, University of Queensland and Professor, Griffith University.
His research investigates schistosomia...
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Associate Professor Nigel McMillan’s research focuses on the development of gene silencing therapies for the treatment of cancers and viral infections, particularly cervical cancer caused by Human Papillomavirus (HPV).
Assoc. Prof. McM...
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One of the focuses of our laboratory is to decipher the dynamics of molecular events taking place during internalisation and trafficking of neurotropic pathogens in neurons.
We use new fluorescent probes and state-of-the-art live-cell micros...
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Professor Anton Middelberg is a Smart Futures Premier’s Fellow at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering & Nanotechnology. Prof. Middelberg’s research focuses on the science of chemical self-assembly processing, with the ultimat...
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Professor Michael Monteiro’s research is aimed to develop methodologies to synthesise complex polymer architectures in water with controlled particle size, molecular weight, and morphology. The polymer architectures that have been made by the ...
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Dr. Michael Nissen has strong interests in paediatric infectious diseases.
In particular, Dr. Nissen is interested in the characterisation and epidemiology of novel viruses, such as the human polyonmavirus and picornavirus-like viruses.
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Dr Kerry-Ann O'Grady is a Senior Research Fellow/Epidemiologist at the Queensland Children's Medical Research Institute, University of Queensland.
Her research focuses on acute respiratory infections (A...
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Associate Professor Colleen Olive is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Immunity and Vaccinology Laboratory at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research.
She gradua...
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Professor David Paterson is a NHMRC Practitioner Fellow and is a clinically active infectious diseases physician and microbiologist at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. Additionally, he is Chief Medical Adviser to the Centre for Healthcare Re...
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Dr. Nico Petty is the Australian Infectious Diseases Research Fellow in the Microbial Genomics research theme.
Using approaches such as genomic epidemiology and comparative genomics, Dr. Petty investigates the evolution and spread of clinica...
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Dr. Simon Phipps’s research seeks to understand the innate immune processes that underlie the pathogenesis of allergic asthma, emphysema, and bronchiolitis.
In particular, Dr. Phipps is examining the relationship between the activation...
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Dr. David Reid is a respiratory physician with research interests in bacterial respiratory infections.
He is currently focused on examining the contribution of specific virulence factors to the pathogenesis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, ...
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Professor Mark Ragan’s research aim is to make quantitative inferences about how genomes, gene, and protein families, regulatory networks, and cellular functions have evolved and diversified.
Using advanced bioinformatic and computatio...
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Professor Mark Schembri is the Deputy-Director of the Australian Infectious Disease Research Centre.
Prof. Schembri’s research is focused on the study of surface proteins that mediate adhesion, aggregation, and biofilm formation, as th...
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Dr. Kate Schroder investigates the pathways that trigger activation of the innate immune system.
In particular, she studies signalling by an emerging player in innate immunity called the ‘inflammasome’, a cellular detection syste...
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Dr. Ben Schulz’s research focuses on the mechanisms and biological roles of glycosylation. Glycosylation is the most abundant and complex post-translational modification of proteins and is essential for protein folding, fine-tuning protein enz...
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Associate Professor Theo Sloots is the Director of the Queensland Paediatric Infectious Disease Laboratory at the Royal Children’s Hospital.
Assoc. Prof. Sloots’s research interests lies in the molecular microbiology and epidemio...
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Professor Peter Sly is recognized internationally in the area of Children’s Environmental Health. He currently directs the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on Children’s Environmental Health, located in Perth; is on the Advisory Board for a long standing WHO – National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Collaborative Agreement; is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health; and is an advisor to the WHO, Public Health and Environment Section. Professor Peter Sly is a NH&MRC Senior Principal Research Fellow and a paediatric respiratory physician with extensive research experience in respiratory physiology.
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Dr. Kirsten Spann is primarily focused in the evasion of host antiviral responses by paramyxoviruses and the functions of the viral proteins involved in this evasion.
Dr. Spann works principally with the paediatric viruses Respiratory Syncyt...
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Dr Kate Stacey’s research interest is in pathogen recognition by the innate immune system.
Early in viral infection the innate immune system is activated by recognition of viral DNA and RNA.
Dr. Stacey’s current work spec...
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Dr Jason Steen’s research interests span a broad range of genomic approaches to studying bacterial pathogensis and evolution of antimicrobial resistance mechanisms.
Dr Steen’s current research includes: Genetic mechanisms of vanc...
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Professor Jenny Stow’s research focus is on protein trafficking in human and animal cells, a process that underlies all cellular functions.
Prof. Stow is particularly interested in the secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines from macro...
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Dr. Matthew Sweet studies the mechanisms by which the innate immune system responds to microbial challenge.
Cells of the innate immune system, such as macrophages, detect invading pathogens through pattern recognition receptors, in particula...
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Professor Andreas Suhrbier is head of The Immunovirology Laboratory at QIMR, and is a PRF with the NH&MRC.
The group works on various aspects of inflammation, with current projects involving chikungunya virus arthritis, SerpinB2 (aka PAI...
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Associate Professor Rohan Teasdale’s research is focused on the identification and characterisation of novel mammalian proteins of the endosomal system. The trafficking pathways within the endosomal system are fundamental for a variety of key ...
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Professor Istvan Toth is one of the key founders of Alchemia, Implicit Biosciences Pty. Ltd.,
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Professor Matt Trau is at the Australian Institute of Bioengineering & Nanotechnology. Prof. Trau is developing a range of nanoscale biosensors as a strategy for disease management. These biosensors include nano-scaled biosensors for epigenetic ...
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Dr Rebecca Traub’s research encompasses the field of veterinary public health, with an emphasis on the epidemiology and control of parasitic zoonoses, human geo-helminthiasis and more recently, rickettsial zoonoses.
An important featur...
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Associate Professor Katharine Trenholme is a Senior Research Fellow at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research.
She has a PhD in the field of malaria cell biology from the University...
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Associate Professor Claire Wainwright is a QHealth Research Fellow at the Queensland Children’s Respiratory Centre at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Brisbane. Assoc. Prof. Wainwright focuses on paediatric respiratory infections, specific...
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Professor Mark Walker is the Director of the Australian Infectious Disease Research Centre.
Prof. Walker’s research focuses on the mechanism by which the group A streptococcus (Streptococcus pyogenes; GAS) causes invasive diseas...
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Associate Professor Christine Wells is a Group Leader at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, where she is researching the networks of genes that drive innate immune...
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Associate Professor David Whiley is based at the Queensland Paediatric Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Royal Children’s Hospital.
His research is principally focused on the development of novel molecular diagnostic and typing tools for...
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Professor Paul Young is the President of the Australasian Virology Society and the Head of the Molecular Virology Unit in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences at The University of Queensland.
Prof. Young’s laboratory emplo...
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