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 | Sandrine Liu T: +61 3 990 29181 E: sandrine.liu@monash.edu | |
| 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 Anthony Purcell T: +61 3 9902 9265 E: anthony.purcell@monash.edu W: Purcell Laboratory |  |
| Heads of Learning and Teaching | Professor Tim Cole Dr Nirma Samarawickrema Professor Jackie Wilce | |
| 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 Patricia Illing T: +61 3 99029373 E: patricia.illing@monash.edu |
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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 |
| Professor Phillip Bird | Bird Laboratory Cell Development and Death | Development & Stem Cells, Immunity |
| Dr Peter Boag | Boag Laboratory Developmental and RNA biology | Development & Stem Cells |
| Professor Greg Challis | Challis Laboratory Natural products chemistry and biology | Infection |
| Professor Timothy Cole | Cole Laboratory Molecular endocrinology | Development & Stem Cells; Cancer |
| Associate Professor Fasseli Coulibaly | Coulibaly Laboratory Structural virology | Infection; Immunity |
| Dr Nathan Croft | Croft Laboratory Systems immunology group | Immunity |
| Associate Professor Max Cryle | Cryle Laboratory Reengineering glycopeptide antibiotics | Infection; Immunity |
| Professor Roger Daly | Daly Laboratory Signalling network | Cancer |
| Dr Martin Davey | Davey Laboratory Immune surveillance | 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 |
| Associate Professor Michelle Dunstone | Dunstone Laboratory Pore forming proteins and immunity | Immunity; Cancer; Development & Stem Cells |
| Dr Andrew Ellisdon | Ellisdon Laboratory Structural biology of signalling and cancer | Cancer; Immunity |
| Dr Dustin Flanagan | ||
| Dr Anne Fletcher | Fletcher & Knoblich Laboratory Stromal immunology | 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 | ||
| Associate Professor Kim Jacobson | Jacobson Laboratory B cells and antibody memory | Immunity |
| Professor David Jans | Jans Laboratory Nuclear signalling | Infection; Cancer; Development & Stem Cells |
| Dr Gavin Knott | Knott Lab Structure & Function of Nucleic | Infection |
| Dr Terry Kwok-Schuelein | Kwok Schuelein Laboratory Microbial oncogenesis | Infection; Cancer |
| Associate Professor Mireille Lahoud | Lahoud Laboratory Dendritic cell receptors | Immunity; Cancer |
| Dr 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 |
| Dr Jerome Le Nours | Le Nours Laboratory Comparative immunology | Immunity |
| Dr Nicole Mifsud | Mifsud Laboratory Clinical immunology | Immunity |
| Professor Christina Mitchell | Intracellular signalling in development, cancer and human disease | Cancer |
| Dr Thomas Naderer | Naderer Laboratory Macrophage-pathogen interaction | Infection; 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 | Immunity; Cancer |
| Dr Antonella Papa | Papa Laboratory Cancer biology and cell signalling | Cancer; Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity; Neuroscience |
| Professor Anthony Purcell | Purcell Laboratory Immunoproteomics | Immunity; Cancer |
| Associate Professor Georg Ramm | Ramm Laboratory Advanced cellular imaging | Cancer; Immunity; Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity |
| Dr Hugh Reid | 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 | 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 |
| Associate 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 |
| Dr Kylie Wagstaff | Wagstaff Laboratory Cancer targeting and nuclear therapeutics | Cancer; Infection |
| Professor James Whisstock | Whisstock Laboratory Molecular imaging of the immune response | Infection; Cancer; Neuroscience |
| Dr Florian Wiede | Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity | |
| Professor Jackie Wilce | Jackie and Matthew Wilce Laboratory Wilce structural biology | Cancer; Immunity; Neuroscience |
| Professor Matthew Wilce | Jackie and Matthew Wilce Laboratory Wilce structural biology | 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 | Immunity; Cancer; Development & Stem Cells |
| Dr Dominic De Nardo | Infection | |
| Dr Dustin Flanagan | ||
| Dr Patricia Illing | ||
| Dr Florian Wiede | Metabolism, Diabetes & Obesity | |
| Dr Qi Zhang |
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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 |
| Dr Nathan Habilla | |
| Dr April Tan |