Speakers

Clare Bryant is Professor of Innate Immunity at the University of Cambridge. She graduated in Physiology and Biochemistry, then qualified as a veterinary surgeon, but decided to focus on research rather than clinical work. After completing a PhD at the Un Read More...

Host-virus interactions; innate immunity; drug development and vaccines Click here for more information.  Read More...

Dr. Cui Hua Liu’s laboratory is mainly interested in studying the molecular mechanisms of pathogenic bacteria-host interactions. Bacterial pathogens secrete effector proteins into host cells, which usually modulate the function of key signaling molecules Read More...

Lourido studies parasitic diseases caused by members of the phylum Apicomplexa, which represent a huge burden to global mortality and morbidity and the development of many nations. Lourido performed his graduate work under the mentorship of Professor L. D Read More...

Penny Moore is a Reader and DST/NRF South African Research Chair of Virus-Host Dynamics at the University of the Witwatersrand and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in South Africa. Moore holds a joint post as a Research Associate at CAPRIS Read More...

Mihai Netea was born and studied medicine in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He completed his PhD at the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, on studies investigating the cytokine network in sepsis. After working as a post-doc at the University of Colorado Read More...

Lalita Ramakrishnan studies the pathogenesis of tuberculosis using a zebrafish model that her laboratory developed.  The optical transparency and genetic tractability of the zebrafish larva have enabled her group to make surprising discoveries about TB pa Read More...

After graduating from Bristol University with degrees in Cellular Pathology and Veterinary Science, Eleanor Riley interned in veterinary pathology at Cornell University and obtained her PhD in immunology and parasitology from the University of Liverpool.  Read More...

A/Prof Freya Fowkes is an ARC Future Fellow, Deputy Director of Maternal and Child Health and Head of the Malaria and Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the Burnet Institute, Melbourne. She completed her doctorate in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the Read More...

Dr Gantier is an ARC Future Fellow working in the Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases at the Hudson Institute in Melbourne. Following on his PhD studies on RNA interference in Dublin (Ireland), he joined the laboratory of Prof Bryan William Read More...

Ash completed his BA(Hons) in Natural Sciences in 1997 at Cambridge University, UK, followed by a PhD (2002) in microbial biochemistry with Prof. Gordon Dougan FRS at Imperial College, London. After a first post-doc at the London School of Hygiene & T Read More...

Dr Sumaira Hasnain is a Senior Research Fellow and a Career Track Fellow at the Mater Research Institute. Sumaira heads up a team of eight researchers as the Immunopathology Research Group and has an interest in chronic inflammatory diseases and such as p Read More...

Nicholas King holds a Medical and PhD degrees and is Professor and Head of Discipline of Pathology, Founding Director of Sydney Cytometry, a University of Sydney Core Facility, Co-head of the Ramaciotti Facility for Human Systems Biology, and Co-head of a Read More...

Christopher obtained his PhD in Microbiology and Biochemistry from the University of Queensland, Australia. He then undertook two postdoctoral roles studying membrane transport proteins, in the laboratories of Prof. Ben Berks and A/Prof. Richard Callaghan Read More...

Dr. Kanta Subbarao is the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity and Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne. She Read More...