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Dr. Ashman is an immunologist interested in the way in which a common commensal yeast interacts with the tissues and organs of the body to cause disease. Dr Ashman's research interests include the roles of innate and adaptive immunity in host responses to mucosal and systemic infection with the yeast Candida albicans.
He graduated from the University of Western Australia, and completed Post-doctoral Fellowships at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana; Emory University, Atlanta; and the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University. He returned to the University of Western Australia in 1985, and rose to the position of Principal Research Fellow in the Department of Pathology. He moved to a position as Reader in Oral Biology in the School of Dentistry at the University of Queensland in 1998.
Dr Ashman has published over 135 articles in the scientific literature. He is a Fellow of the Australian Society for Microbiology, and one of an elite group of Australian academics elected to Fellowship of the American Academy of Microbiology. He has held Visiting Research Fellowships at the Trudeau Institute, New York; and a position as Visiting Professor at Dartmouth Medical School, New Hampshire.
He has been Secretary of the Australasian Society for Immunology, Director of Research for the Dental School, and has represented the School on numerous University Committees. His current teaching interests are in curriculum development.
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