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Dr Stefano Giulieri

+613 8344 5701 | stefano.giulieri@unimelb.edu.au

Position:
Clinician Researcher and Infectious Diseases Physician
Theme(s):
Antimicrobial Resistance, Bacterial and Parasitic Infections
Discipline(s):
Computational Science and Genomics, Clinical and health systems research
Unit(s):
The University of Melbourne, Department of Microbiology and Immunology (DMI) , Department of Infectious Diseases, Victorian Infectious Diseases Service (VIDS)
Lab Group(s):
Howden Group

Dr Stefano Giulieri is a clinician researcher with a special interest in staphylococcal genomics and orthopaedic infections. He is passionate about using evolutionary biology, statistical genomics and machine learning approaches to answer clinical questions in infectious diseases. He is particularly interested in how bacteria like the hospital superbug Staphylococcus aureus, evolve within patients during severe infections to evade both antibiotics and immune responses. He is an Infectious Diseases Physician at the Royal Melbourne Hospital where he has a clinic specialised in orthopaedics infections. Before moving to Melbourne, he was the Head of the Infectious Diseases Consultation in the Orthopaedics Department at the Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland.

  • Key Achievements
    • Stefano was awarded his MD at the University of Basel in Switzerland and is a fellow of both the Swiss Medical Association (FMH) and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) in Infectious Diseases. He completed his PhD in bacterial genomics at the University of Melbourne in 2022. He has been recipient of the following awards and grants:

      Melbourne Genomics Immersion Fellowship (2023)

      Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases (SSI)/SAFE-ID Award for basic research (2018)

      Travel grant of the International Symposium on Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections (2016)

      Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) - Program Committee Award (2012)

    Publications
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    Research Groups
    • Howden Group

      Research from Professor Ben Howden’s group research uses genomics, molecular biology, epidemiology and clinical studies to address a broad range of issues related to invasive bacterial diseases in humans, especially those caused by staphylococci, enterococci and other antimicrobial-resistant species. Additionally, working closely with scientists in the MDU PHL, they investigate the epidemiology, evolution, and spread of bacterial pathogens of public health significance such as Neisseria gonorrhoea, Listeria monocytogenes, Shigella and Salmonella spp., Legionella spp., and carbapenemase-producing gram-negative bacteria.


      Lab Team

      Howden Group

      • Director Of Microbiological Diagnostic Unit (MDU) Public Health Laboratory
      • Clinical Microbiologist & Infectious Diseases Physician
      • Senior Researcher
      • Computational Microbiologist, Bioinformatician
      • Dr Romain Guerillot
      • Dr Natasha Holmes
      • Dr Anders Gonçalves da Silva
      • Dr Kyra Chua
      • Wei Gao
      • Dr Jason Kwong
      • Sarah Baines
      • Dr Jean Lee
      • Dr Stefano Giulieri
      • Eloise Alison
      • Dr Andre Mu
        Research Officer
      • Robyn Lee
        Research Fellow