Molecular microbiology: Key personnel and collaborations

Academic and research staff

• Associate Professor Brian Monk
• Associate Professor Geoffrey Tompkins
• Associate Professor Vincent Bennani
• Professor Richard Cannon
• Associate Professor Peter Cathro
• Associate Professor Dawn Coates
• Dr Gemma Cotton
• Professor Mauro Farella
• Associate Professor Nick Heng
• Dr Mikhail Keniya
• Dr Erwin Lamping
• Dr Hee Ji Lee
• Associate Professor Jonathan Leichter
• Professor Karl Lyons
• Associate Professor Li Mei
• Dr Trudy Milne
• Dr Don Schwass
• Professor Andrew Tawse-Smith
• Dr Rajni Wilson

Current and recent postgraduate students

PhD students

Dina Abdelmoneim
Zhen Dong
Asrar Elahi
Parham Hosseini
Chitra Krishnan
Golnoush Madani
Yasmeem Ruma (PhD)
SyaridaSafii
Amira Salem
Shaikha Al Samahi

DClinDent and Masters students

Deepak Chellappa (DClinDent)
James Millar (DClinDent)
Nurul Thiyahuddin (DClinDent)
Osvaldo Gonzales (MDS)
Joshua Donn (MS)

Summer and honours students

Lauren Allen (2017-18)
Bomi Aum (2018-19)
Danyon Graham (2017)
Anne Jude (2017-18, 2018-19)
Manish Kumar (2016-17, 17-18)
Hetal Shukla (2017-18)

Visiting researchers

Jasper James (2018-2019), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Associate Professor Michaela Lackner (2018), Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria
Associate Professor Khoon Lim, CReaTE group, Centre for Bioengineering and Nanomedicine, UO Christchurch

Interested in joining our programme?

Collaborations

Intramural collaborators

Associate Professor Mihnea Bostina, Department of Microbiology
Professor Kurt Krause, Department of Biochemistry
Associate Professor Joel Tyndall, School of Pharmacy

Extramural collaborators

Associate Professor Marina Bakri, University of Malaya
Dr Ariya Chindamporn, Chulalongkorn University
Professor Gary Dunny, University of Minnesota
Dr Edmund Fleischer, MicroCombiChem, Germany
Associate Professor Maggie-Lee Huckabee, University of Canterbury
Dr Anette Klinger, MicroCombiChem, Germany
Professor Susumu Kajiwara, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Professor Amarila Malik, Universitas Indonesia
Associate Professor Alok Mitra, University of Auckland
Dr David Musson, University of Auckland
Dr Kyoko Niimi, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Dr Masakazu Niimi, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Professor David Perlin, Rutgers University
Professor Rajendra Prasad, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Associate Professor Jacinta Santhanam, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Dr Jan Schmid, Massey University, Palmerston North
Professor Robert Stroud, UCSF
Dr Thomas Tomasiak, University of Arizona