Our people
Our research and education excellence is a reflection of the people behind it. We have research group leaders who are world experts in their field, in addition to many talented researchers, educators and postgraduate students.
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Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department leadership
| Head of Department | Professor Roger Daly T: +61 3 9902 9301 E: roger.daly@monash.edu W: Daly Laboratory |  |
| Personal Assistant to Head of Department | Ico Ma T: +61 3 990 29350 E: ico.ma@monash.edu | |
| Executive Assistant to Head of Department | Danielle Rika T: +61 3 990 29350 E: danielle.rika@monash.edu | |
| Deputy Head of Department (Academic) | Associate Professor Tim Cole T: +61 3 9902 9118 E: tim.cole@monash.edu W: Cole Laboratory |  |
| Deputy Head of Department (Research) | Professor Anthony (Tony) Purcell T: +61 3 9902 9265 E: anthony.purcell@monash.edu W: Purcell Laboratory |  |
| Head of Learning and Teaching | Associate Professor Mark Prescott T: +61 3 9905 3724 E: mark.prescott@monash.edu |  |
| Graduate research Co-ordinator | Professor Mibel Aguilar T: +61 3 9905 3723 E: mibel.aguilar@monash.edu W: Aguilar Laboratory |  |
| Honours Co-convenor | Associate Professor Michelle Dunstone T: +61 3 9902 9269 E: michell.dunstone@monash.edu W: Dustone Laboratory |  |
| Honours Co-convenor | Dr Kylie Wagstaff T: +61 3 9902 9348 E: kylie.wagstaff@monash.edu W: Wagstaff Laboratory |  |
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Our academic and research staff
Our Lab Heads and Group Leaders are listed below. The lab information (click on the links to visit their laboratory websites) showcases the incredible research each of them are doing.
| Name | Lab information | Program membership |
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| Professor Mibel Aguilar | Aguilar Laboratory Biomaterials and drug design | Cardiovascular Disease; Neuroscience |
| Associate Professor Traude Beilharz | Beilharz Laboratory RNA systems biology | Development & Stem Cells; Cancer; Infection & Immunity |
| Dr Richard Berry | Berry Laboratory Immune recognition and escape | Infection and Immunity |
| Professor Phillip Bird | Bird Laboratory Cell Development and Death | Development & Stem Cells, Infection & Immunity |
| Dr Peter Boag | Boag Laboratory Developmental and RNA biology | Development & Stem Cells |
| Associate Professor Irina Caminschi | Caminschi Laboratory Dendritic cell biology and immunotherapy | Infection and Immunity; Cancer |
| Professor Greg Challis | Challis Laboratory Natural products chemistry and biology | Infection & Immunity |
| Associate Professor Tim Cole | Cole Laboratory Molecular endocrinology | Development & Stem Cells; Cancer |
| Associate Professor Fasseli Coulibaly | Coulibaly Laboratory Structural virology | Infection and Immunity |
| Dr Nathan Croft | Croft Laboratory Systems immunology group | Infection and Immunity |
| Associate Professor Max Cryle | Cryle Laboratory Reengineering glycopeptide antibiotics | Infection and Immunity |
| Professor Roger Daly | Daly Laboratory Signalling network | Cancer |
| Dr Martin Davey | Davey Laboratory Immune surveillance | Infection and Immunity |
| Associate Professor Chen Davidovich | Epigenetic regulation, structure and function laboratory | Cancer |
| Associate Professor Alex de Marco | De Marco Laboratory Imaging and technology development | Infection and Immunity |
| Associate Professor Michelle Dunstone | Dunstone Laboratory Pore forming proteins and immunity | Infection and Immunity; Cancer; Development & Stem Cells |
| Dr Andrew Ellisdon | Ellisdon Laboratory Structural biology of signalling and cancer | Cancer; Infection & Immunity |
| Dr Dominika Elmlund | Dominika and Hans Elmlund Laboratory Structure and dynamics of macromolecules by cryo-EM | Cancer; Infection & Immunity |
| Dr Hans Elmlund | Dominika and Hans Elmlund Laboratory Structure and dynamics of macromolecules by cryo-EM | Cancer; Development & Stem Cells; Infection & Immunity |
| Dr Anne Fletcher | Fletcher & Knoblich Laboratory Stromal immunology | Infection and Immunity |
| Associate Professor Stephanie Gras | Gras Laboratory Viral and structural immunology | Infection and Immunity |
| Professor Nicole La Gruta | La Gruta Laboratory CD8+ T cell immunity and ageing | Infection and Immunity |
| Professor Nicholas Huntington | Huntington Laboratory Cancer immunotherapy | Infection and Immunity; Cancer |
| Associate Professor Kim Jacobson | Jacobson Laboratory B cells and antibody memory | Infection and Immunity |
| Professor David Jans | Jans Laboratory Nuclear signalling | Infection and Immunity; Cancer; Development & Stem Cells |
| Dr Kostas Knoblich | Fletcher & Knoblich Laboratory Stromal immunology | Infection and Immunity |
| Dr Sanjaya Kuruppu | Kuruppu research group | Neuroscience; Cardiovascular Disease |
| Dr Terry Kwok-Schuelein | Kwok Schuelein Laboratory Microbial oncogenesis | Infection and Immunity; Cancer |
| Associate Professor Mireille Lahoud | Lahoud Laboratory Dendritic cell receptors | Infection and Immunity; Cancer |
| Dr Ruby Law | Law Laboratory Fibrinolysis and wound healing | Infection and Immunity; Cardiovascular Disease |
| Dr Michael Lazarou | Lazarou Laboratory Autophagy and mitochondrial quality control | Neuroscience; Infection & Immunity; Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity |
| Dr Jerome Le Nours | Le Nours Laboratory Comparative immunology | Infection and Immunity |
| Dr Eliana Marino | Marino Laboratory Immunology and diabetes | Infection and Immunity; Cardiovascular Disease; Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity |
| Dr Nicole Mifsud | Mifsud Laboratory Clinical immunology | Infection and Immunity |
| Professor Christina Mitchell | Intracellular signalling in development, cancer and human disease | Cancer |
| Dr Thomas Naderer | Naderer Laboratory Macrophage-pathogen interaction | Infection and Immunity; Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity |
| Dr Lan Nguyen | Nguyen Laboratory Integrated network modelling | Cancer |
| Associate Professor Meredith O'Keeffe | O'Keeffe Laboratory Dendritic cells in health and disease research group | Infection and Immunity; Cancer |
| Dr Antonella Papa | Papa Laboratory Cancer biology and cell signalling | Cancer; Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity; Neuroscience |
| Associate Professor Mark Prescott | Fluorescent protein biosensors and autophagy laboratory | Infection and Immunity; Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity |
| Professor Tony Purcell | Purcell Laboratory Immunoproteomics | Infection and Immunity; Cancer |
| Associate Professor Georg Ramm | Ramm Laboratory Advanced cellular imaging | Cancer; Infection & Immunity; Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity |
| Dr Hugh Reid | Infection and Immunity | |
| Dr Remy Robert | Robert Laboratory Therapeutic antibodies for inflammation | Infection and Immunity |
| Dr Adam Rose | Rose Laboratory Nutrient metabolism and signalling | Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity; Development & Stem Cells |
| Associate Professor Sefi Rosenbluh | Rosenbluh Laboratory Cancer functional genomics | Cancer |
| Professor Jamie Rossjohn | Infection and immunity laboratory | Infection and Immunity; Cancer |
| Professor Mike Ryan | Ryan Laboratory Mitochondrial biology and disease | Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity; Neuroscience |
| Dr Hsin-Hui Shen | Shen Laboratory Nano-antimicrobial materials | Infection & Immunity |
| Associate Professor Jiangning Song | Song Laboratory Bioinformatics and computational biomedicine | Infection and Immunity; Cancer |
| Associate Professor Martin Stone | Stone Laboratory Chemokine-receptor interaction | Infection and Immunity; Cardiovascular Disease |
| Professor Tony Tiganis | Tiganis Laboratory Cellular signalling & human disease | Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity; Cancer; Infection & Immunity |
| Professor Ana Traven | Traven Laboratory Fungal infections and medical mycology | Infection and Immunity |
| Dr Julian Vivian | Vivian Laboratory Molecular immunology | Infection and Immunity |
| Dr Kylie Wagstaff | Wagstaff Laboratory Cancer targeting and nuclear therapeutics | Cancer; Infection & Immunity |
| Professor James Whisstock | Whisstock Laboratory Molecular imaging of the immune response | Infection and Immunity; Cancer; Neuroscience |
| Professor Jackie Wilce | Jackie and Matthew Wilce Laboratory Wilce structural biology | Cancer; Infection & Immunity; Neuroscience |
| Professor Matthew Wilce | Jackie and Matthew Wilce Laboratory Wilce structural biology | Infection and Immunity |
| Associate Professor Lee Wong | Lee Wong Laboratory Epigenetics and chromatin research | Cancer; Development & Stem Cells |
| Professor Colby Zaph | Zaph Laboratory Laboratory of mucosal immunity and inflammation | Infection and Immunity; Cancer; Development & Stem Cells |
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Our education-focussed academics
| Name | Area of research |
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| Dr Nirma Samarawickrema | Teaching-research nexus, Authentic assessments, Assessment literacy |
| Dr Caroline Speed | Innovative approaches to assessment, Broadening learning experiences |