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 Nicole La Gruta T: +61 3 9902 9182 E: nicole.la.gruta@monash.edu W: La Gruta Lab | 
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| Deputy Head of Department (Academic) | Professor Timothy Cole T: +61 3 9902 9118 E: tim.cole@monash.edu W: Cole Laboratory |  |
| Deputy Head of Department (Research) | Professor Kim Good-Jacobson T: +61 3 990 29510 E: kim.jacobson@monash.edu W: Jacobson Laboratory |  |
| Heads of Learning and Teaching | Professor Tim Cole T: +61 3 9902 9118 E: tim.cole@monash.edu W: Cole Laboratory |
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| Associate Professor Nirma Samarawickrema T: +61 3 9902 0295 E: nirma.samarawickrema@monash.edu | 
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| Graduate research Co-ordinator | Associate Professor Anne Fletcher T: +61 3 9905 1743 E: anne.l.fletcher@monash.edu W: Fletcher Lab | 
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| Honours coordinator and BCH3990 chief examiner | Associate Professor Michelle Dunstone T: +61 3 9902 9269 E: michelle.dunstone@monash.edu W: Dustone Laboratory W: Honours in Biomedical Science |  |
| Department Lead for Research Career Development | Professor Andrew Ellisdon T: +61 3 9902 9280 E: andrew.ellisdon@monash.edu W: Ellisdon Lab | 
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| Personal Assistant to Head of Department | Ico Ma T: +61 3 990 29350 E: ico.ma@monash.edu | |
| Executive Assistant and Administrative Officer | Sandrine Liu T: +61 3 990 53714 E: sandrine.liu@monash.edu | |
| Department Career Development Committee | Professor Andrew Ellisdon (Co-Chair) Dr. Patricia Illing (Co-Chair) Professor Lee Wong Dr. Nathan Croft Dr Evan Healy Dr Chris Lupton Dr Angela Harrison Dr Cyntia Taveneau | |
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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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| Dr Wael Awad Mohamed Abdelhady | ||
| Professor Mibel Aguilar | Aguilar Laboratory Biomaterials and drug design | Cardiovascular Disease; Neuroscience |
| Professor Traude Beilharz | Beilharz Laboratory RNA systems biology | Development & Stem Cells; Cancer; Infection |
| Professor Peter Boag | Boag Laboratory Developmental and RNA biology | Development & Stem Cells |
| Dr Asolina Braun | Braun Group Skin Immunology | Immunity; Infection |
| Professor Greg Challis | Challis Laboratory Natural products chemistry and biology | Infection |
| Dr Michael Chopin | Chopin Laboratory Dendritic cell transcriptional regulation | Cancer; Immunity |
| Professor Timothy Cole | Cole Laboratory Molecular endocrinology | Development & Stem Cells; Cancer |
| Professor Fasseli Coulibaly | Coulibaly Laboratory Structural virology | Infection; Immunity |
| Dr Nathan Croft | Croft Laboratory Systems immunology group | Immunity |
| Professor Max Cryle | Cryle Laboratory Reengineering glycopeptide antibiotics | Infection; Immunity |
| Professor Roger Daly | Daly Laboratory Signalling network | Cancer |
| Professor Chen Davidovich | Epigenetic regulation, structure and function laboratory | Cancer |
| Dr Dominic De Nardo | De Nardo Group Innate Immune Signalling Group | Infection |
| Associate Professor Michelle Dunstone | Dunstone Laboratory Pore forming proteins and immunity | Immunity; Cancer; Development & Stem Cells |
| Professor Andrew Ellisdon | Ellisdon Laboratory Structural biology of signalling and cancer | Cancer; Immunity |
| Dr Dustin Flanagan | Flanagan Laboratory Cell Competition and Niche Signalling | Cancer |
| Associate Professor Anne Fletcher | Fletcher & Knoblich Laboratory Stromal immunology | Immunity; Cancer |
| Dr Luke Formosa | Formosa Group Mitochondrial Biology, Metabolism and Disease | Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity |
| Professor Kim Good-Jacobson | Jacobson Laboratory B cells, Antibody, Memory | Immunity |
| Dr David Goode | Goode Laboratory Cancer Bioinformatics and Tumour Evolution | Cancer; Immunity |
| Professor Nicole La Gruta | La Gruta Laboratory CD8+ T cell immunity and ageing | Immunity |
| Professor Nicholas Huntington | Huntington Laboratory Cancer immunotherapy | Immunity; Cancer |
| Dr Patricia Illing | ||
| Dr Gavin Knott | Knott Lab Structure & Function of Nucleic | Infection |
| Associate Professor Mireille Lahoud | Lahoud Laboratory Dendritic cell receptors | Immunity; Cancer |
| Associate Professor Ruby Law | Law Laboratory Fibrinolysis and wound healing | Immunity; Cardiovascular Disease |
| Dr Michael Lazarou | Lazarou Laboratory Autophagy and mitochondrial quality control | Neuroscience; Immunity; Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity |
| Associate Professor Jerome Le Nours | Le Nours Laboratory Comparative immunology | Immunity; Cancer |
| Dr Nicole Mifsud | Mifsud Laboratory Clinical immunology | Immunity; Cancer |
| Professor Christina Mitchell | Mitchell Laboratory Phosphoinositide Signalling and Disease | Cancer |
| Associate Professor Lan Nguyen | Nguyen Laboratory Integrated network modelling | Cancer |
| Dr Kate McArthur | McArthur Group Mitochondria, Cell Death & Immunity | Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity; Immunity Programs |
| Associate Professor Meredith O'Keeffe | O'Keeffe Laboratory Dendritic cells in health and disease research group | Immunity; Cancer |
| Dr Jan Petersen | ||
| Professor Anthony Purcell | Purcell Laboratory Immunoproteomics | Immunity; Cancer |
| Professor Georg Ramm | Ramm Laboratory Advanced cellular imaging | Cancer; Immunity; Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity |
| Associate Professor Adam Rose | Rose Laboratory Nutrient metabolism and signalling | Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity; Development & Stem Cells |
| Professor Sefi Rosenbluh | Rosenbluh Laboratory Cancer functional genomics | Cancer |
| Professor Jamie Rossjohn | Infection and immunity laboratory | Immunity; Cancer |
| Professor Mike Ryan | Ryan Laboratory Mitochondrial biology and disease | Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity; Neuroscience |
| Dr Adam Shahine | Shahine Group Lipid Mediated Structural Immunity | Immunity |
| Dr Hsin-Hui Shen | Shen Laboratory Nano-antimicrobial materials | Infection |
| Professor Wei Shi | Shi Laboratory Bioinformatics and Transcriptomics | Immunity; Cancer |
| Professor Jiangning Song | Song Laboratory Bioinformatics and computational biomedicine | Infection; Cancer |
| Professor Martin Stone | Stone Laboratory Chemokine-receptor interaction | Immunity; Cardiovascular Disease |
| Professor Tony Tiganis | Tiganis Laboratory Cellular signalling & human disease | Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity; Cancer; Immunity |
| Professor Ana Traven | Traven Laboratory Fungal infections and medical mycology | Infection |
| Professor James Whisstock | Whisstock Laboratory Molecular imaging of the immune response | Infection; Cancer; Neuroscience |
| 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 | Immunity; Cancer; Development & Stem Cells |
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Our education-focussed academics
| Name | Area of research |
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| Associate Professor Nirma Samarawickrema | Teaching-research nexus, Authentic assessments, Assessment literacy |
| Dr Nathan Habilla | |
| Dr April Tan |