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