2019 Speakers

Pascale Cossart, after studying chemistry in Lille (France) obtained a master degree at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Back in France, she obtained her PhD in Paris in the Institut Pasteur where she is still now, heading the « Bacteria-Cell Intera Read More...

Dr Shee-Mei Lok is an Associate Professor in the Emerging Infectious program in Duke-NUS, Singapore. She was also a National Research Foundation (NRF) fellow (2009-2014) and is now a NRF Investigator. She is a structural virologist specializing in x-ray c Read More...

I am Professor of Infectious Diseases and Director of the Institute of Microbiology & Infection at the University of Birmingham, UK.  Read More...

Kim Newton joined Genentech in 2001 as a postdoc after completing her PhD in the cell death lab of Andreas Strasser at the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute.  As a postdoc with Vishva Dixit, she worked on several projects including the role of the adaptor Read More...

Dr. Seder did his postdoctoral training in the Laboratory of Immunology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under Dr. William Paul from 1989-1993 and in 1994 became Chief of the Clinical Immunology Section in the Laborator Read More...

Prof Linfa Wang is the director of the Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. He is an international leader in the field of emerging zoonotic viruses and virus-host interaction. He is a member of the WHO SARS Scie Read More...

Elizabeth Ann Winzeler is a Professor at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. She leads a group that uses systematic, data intensive methods to solve problems at the interface of host pathogen biology typically involving large coll Read More...

Professor Allison Abendroth has a Bachelor of Science Honours (First class) and a PhD from the University of Adelaide, studying neurobiology of herpes simplex virus. In 1996 she undertook Postdoctoral training at Stanford University, USA where she studied Read More...

Andrew Currie is a basic scientist with experience in the fields of paediatric innate immunity and infectious disease, with a focus on neonatal sepsis. He currently leads the Neonatal Immunology Research Group in partnership with Neonatology Consultant, D Read More...

Professor Elizabeth Hartland is the Director and CEO of Hudson Institute of Medical Research and the Head of the Department of Molecular and Translational Science at Monash University. Read More...

Professor David Hume FMedSci FRSE has research interests in functional genomics and the biology of macrophages. He is a graduate of the Australian National University and did postdoctoral research in the Dunn School of Pathology in Oxford, John Curtin Sch Read More...

Professor Nicole La Gruta is head of the T cell development and function laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Monash University. She completed postdoctoral studies at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, in Memphis, Tenne Read More...

James McCarthy is a Senior Scientist at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, and an Infectious Diseases Physician at Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital, both in Brisbane, Australia. His clinical and research training were undertaken in Australia, th Read More...

Dr. Kirsty Short is an ARC DECRA research fellow at the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland. She completed a PhD in 2013 at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne. Read More...

Associate Professor Wai-Hong Tham is a Howard Hughes-Wellcome Trust International Research Scholar and a laboratory head in the Infection and Immunity Division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. She obtained her PhD from Princeton University. The Tha Read More...

Dr. Ana Traven is an Associate Professor and lab head in the Infection and Immunity theme of the Biomedicine Discovery Institute at Monash University. She obtained her PhD from the University of Zagreb in Croatia, and trained as a postdoctoral fellow at t Read More...