Lab Head – Prof Kat Holt (PhD)
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Postdoctoral researchers
- Dr Kelly Wyres (DPhil) – K. pneumoniae genomics; see webpage
- Dr Margaret Lam (PhD) – K. pneumoniae virulence
- Dr Jane Hawkey (PhD) – Mobile elements and resistance; ISMapper developer
- Dr Zoe Dyson (PhD) – Typhoid genomics, University of Melbourne/University of Cambridge
- Dr Ryota Gomi (PhD) – Environmental Klebsiella, Visiting Fellow from Kyoto University
Lab Manager
- Louise Judd (PhD) – Microbiome, Illumina & Nanopore sequencing
Graduate students
- Stephen Watts (PhD student) – Respiratory microbial genomics; FastSpar developer
- Ryan Wick (PhD student) – Long read assembly; Bandage & Unicycler developer
- David Edwards (PhD student) – Evolution and selection in pathogen populations; RedDog developer
- Yu Wan (PhD student) – Bacterial gene networks
Masters & Honours students
- Roni Froumine (MSc Bioinformatics)
- Leo Featherstone (Honours)
Honoraries, Visitors & Grad students based in other labs
- Dr Guillaume Meric (Postdoc) – Pathogen and microbiome genomics (Inouye lab, Baker Institute)
- Dr Shu Mei Teo (Postdoc) – Human microbiome and asthma development (Inouye lab, Baker Institute)
- Dr Cadhla Firth (Postdoc Fellow) – James Cook University, Cairns
- Owen Qin (PhD student) – Host/microbe genetics (Inouye lab, Baker Institute)
- Qin Qin Huang (PhD student ) – Expression QTLs in immune development (Inouye lab, Baker Institute)
- Howard Tang (PhD student ) – Systems genomics of asthma (Inouye lab, Baker Institute)
- Jake Barber (PhD student) – Experimental evolution (McDonald lab, Monash University)
- Heyu Lin (PhD student) – Mercury methylation (Moreau lab, University of Melbourne Earth Sciences)
- Zetao Sun (MSc student) – Resistance mechanisms in Klebsiella (Velkov lab, University of Melbourne Pharmacology)
Alumni
- Claire Gorrie (PhD) – K. pneumoniae genomic epidemiology
- Danielle Ingle (PhD) – E. coli genomics
- Dr Mark Schultz (Postdoc) – A. baumannii phylogenomics and metagenomics
- Sebastian Duchene (Postdoc) – Phylodynamics
- Dr Paul McAdam (Postdoc) – TB phylogenomics
- Macgregor Todd (MSc Bioinformatics)
- Marialena Michanetzi (MSc Bioinformatics)
- Cassandra Litchfield (MSc Bioinformatics)
- Damien Zammit (MSc Bioinformatics) – Recombination analysis
- Alex Tokolyi (Honours) – Plasmid genomics
- Harriet Dashnow (VLSCI intern) – SRST2 early development
- Partha Sarathi Gope (MPhil) – Plasmid bioinformatics
- Louise Cerdeira (Visiting PhD student from University of São Paulo) – KPC plasmids
- Carl Britto (Visiting PhD student from Oxford University) – Enteric fever
- Gittan Blezer (MSc internship project from University of Utrecht) – K. pneumoniae core genome
- Morgan Cerqueira Alves (3rd-year Biochemistry research project) – ESBL in K. pneumoniae
- Wassif Kabir (3rd-year Biochemistry research project) – Salmonella Kentucky phylogenomics
- Roni Froumine (3rd-year Microbiology research project) – CRISPR in K. pneumoniae
- Muhammad Fadli Bin Ismail (3rd-year Biochemistry research project) – K. oxytoca comparative genomics
- Hugh Cottingham (3rd-year Biochemistry research project) – Microbial enrichment from nasopharyngeal samples
- Kalani Paranagama (3rd-year Microbiology research project) – IS elements in K. pneumoniae

Some of the lab attending AMIGOS in Sydney (Ryan, Paul, Claire, Jane, Harriet, Shu Mei, Stephen, Wan)

Lab members working on a team project to analyse the genomes of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus isolated from a local hospital.
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