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• Key Achievements

  • Andre has a doctoral degree from The University of Melbourne (2016) in interdisciplinary sciences, including molecular microbiology, microbial ecology, and geological sciences. 

    Andre has been awarded competitive fellowships to establish international collaborations, including awards from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (2013) to investigate how microbial communities respond to anthropogenic perturbation using 16S metagenomics; and the Australian Endeavour Research Fellowship (2018) to collaborate with Prof Rob Knight (UCSD) on integrating bioinformatic analyses of metagenomic and metabolomic data towards understanding how the gut microbiome facilitates the enhanced colonisation with VRE.   

    Andre also co-leads the experimental phase of a multi-million-dollar research project (funded by Bioplatforms Australia) involving Principal Investigators from across Australia. The BPA funded project aims to develop a framework dataset enabling the identification of core targets common to sepsis pathogens (i.e., Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, and Streptococcus pyogenes) using high-throughput genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, proteomics, and integrative bioinformatic analyses. 

  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.

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    Lab Team

    

    • Professor Benjamin Howden

      Director Of Microbiological Diagnostic Unit (MDU) Public Health Laboratory
    • Dr Norelle Sherry

      Clinical Microbiologist & Infectious Diseases Physician
    • Dr Abdou Hachani

      Senior Researcher
    • Dr Jake Lacey

      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

  • Stinear Group

    Tim Stinear’s group’s research addresses priorities across four connected themes that including hospital superbugs, pathogenic mycobacteria, natural product discovery and public health genomics that aim to understand and contain the spread of bacteria causing serious human disease. 

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    Lab Team

    

    • Professor Tim Stinear

      Laboratory Head and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Mycobacterium ulcerans
    • Dr Ian Monk

      Postdoctoral Researcher
    • Dr Abdou Hachani

      Senior Researcher
    • Jessica Porter

      Research Assistant
    • Kirstie Mangas

      PhD Student
    • Andrew Buultjens

      PhD Student
    • Andre Mu

      Research Officer

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