Biomolecular Frontiers Research Centre

People

Management committee

	Professor Nicki Packer (Director) BSc, PhD (Syd) Formerly Executive Vice President of the biotechnology company Proteome Systems, Nicki was part of the team that set up the Australian Proteome Analysis Facility at Macquarie. She is a senior editor of Proteomics and holds several patents in glycobiology. Research interests: The post-translational modification of proteins by sugars (glycomics). This encompasses the role of glycosylation in many systems including the innate immune system, cancer glycomics and improved techniques for analysis of glycoproteins. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Professor Ian Paulsen (Deputy Director) BSc (Hons), PhD (Monash) An expert in genomics, Ian worked for several years as an investigator for the Institute for Genomic Research in the US, where he led the sequencing of many microbial genomes. He is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher and holds a NSW Life Science Research Award at Macquarie. Ian is currently using genome sequencing, metagenomics and functional genomics to understand how lateral gene transfer in bacteria enables them to adapt to different environmental niches Research interests: Understanding microbial physiology and evolution through global approaches such as genome sequencing, metagenomics, bioinformatics, transcriptomics and proteomics. Research interests: Understanding microbial physiology and evolution through global approaches such as genome sequencing, metagenomics, bioinformatics, transcriptomics and proteomics. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Professor Mark Baker BSc (Hons), PhD (Macquarie) Mark has many years' experience managing research programs in academic, industrial and clinical cancer discovery. At Macquarie his team focuses on molecular cell proteomics. An advocate for the commercialisation of Australian biotechnology, he is Chair of the HUPO Nominations Committee. Research interests: Advanced proteomic technologies, cancer metastasis and how proteases (their receptors, partners and inhibitors) regulate biological processes. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Emeritus Professor Peter Bergquist MSc (Hons), PhD, DSc (Auckland) Peter is regarded as an international authority on the cloning and high-level expression of genes coding for enzymes useful to industry. His pioneering work includes developing novel methods for enzyme evolution, and using them to modify thermophile enzymes for improved performance in biofuels research and oil and gas recovery. He has published extensively on the diversity of culturable and unculturable thermophilic bacteria, and chairs the Ramaciotti Gene Function Analysis Management Committee. Research interests: The high-level expression of industrially-useful enzymes in fungal hosts, and rapid methods for the field detection of environmental pathogens using isothermal nucleic acids amplification. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Professor Bill Hancock An expert in clinical proteomics, Bill has worked as a principal scientist at Hewlett Packard Laboratories, and is a former Vice President of Proteomics at ThermoFisher. He was President of the California Separation Science Society for 10 years and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Proteomic Research. His honours include the Martin Gold Medal in Separation Science (British Chromatographic Society) and the ACS Award in Chromatography. Research interests: Disease mechanisms; the discovery of potential therapeutic agents by lectin enrichment and proteomic analysis of biological fluids and tissue samples. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Professor Paul Haynes BAppScs (UTS), PhD (Macquarie) Before joining Macquarie, Paul pursued a research career in the US, including working at the Rockefeller University in New York, and as Associate Professor at the University of Arizona. In 2006 he took up a New South Wales Government Biofirst Fellowship. He has published 55 scientific papers, is a senior editor for Proteomics, and has four issued patents. Research interests: Environmental proteomics; applying protein identification and characterisation by mass spectrometry to solve problems in plant biology. Recent projects include: molecular analysis of hot and cold temperature stress in rice plants; heavy metal stress on Sydney rock oysters and amphipods; geographical adaptation to environmental stresses in Pachycladon, an endemic New Zealand plant. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	A/Professor Mark Molloy BSc (Hons), PhD (Biochemistry) (Macquarie) Mark is a biochemist with 14 years' experience in proteomics. He completed his post-doctoral training at the University of Michigan Medical School. Later he worked in the proteomics R & D group at Pfizer, leading a team to identify biomarkers of new drug entities. He is currently Director of the Australian Proteome Analysis Facility. Research interests: Using proteomic technologies for cancer research. This research sits at the interface of biochemistry/cell biology/analytical chemistry/clinical chemistry. The group uses quantitative mass spectrometry and other bioanalytical techniques including electrophoresis and chromatography. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Professor Helena Nevalainen BSc (Genetics), MSc (Genetics), PhD (Genetics) (Helsinki) Helena is an experienced research manager, and has worked in the biotechnology industry on strain and product development. She has also researched for multinational biotech companies in the US and Finland. A member of the Academy of Finland as an expert in fungal biotechnology, she has published over 120 papers in refereed journals. Research interests: Molecular biology and the enzymology of biotechnologically important filamentous fungi. This includes biological control mediated by fungi, fungal proteomics and molecular prospecting of the environment for novel bioactivities and valuable gene products. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full

Members

	A/Professor Brian Atwell Research interests: Cell responses to abiotic factors, using molecular and proteomic techniques to identify key changes when rice plants are chilled, heated or deprived of oxygen. The effects of elevated CO₂ on plant function. In particular, using classical plant physiology to define the experimental conditions under which stress is assessed at the gene level. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Dr Louise Brown BMedSci (Hons), PhD (Syd) Research interests: Using biophysical spectroscopy techniques to determine the structure of proteins. Conformational changes that accompany the function of proteins. The main technique involves spectroscopic probes or labels that can report on the local environment of the protein. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Professor Michael Gillings BA, BSc (Hons), PhD (Macquarie) Seven of his recent publications have been listed as 'must read' or 'recommended' on the Faculty of 1000 website. Research interests: The exploration of genetic diversity in a range of organisms. Current projects investigate lateral gene transfer in bacteria, population structure in freshwater fish and sharks, and molecular prospecting as a means of recovering novel genes and gene products. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Professor Ewa Goldys Ewa's expertise spans the fields of biophotonics, optical characterisation, ultrasensitive detection of analytes, biosensing and bioimaging. She has also developed advanced methods of synthesis and characterisation of fluorescent nanoparticles for applications in fluorescence labelling. Her current research draws on her achievements in materials science and ultrasensitive optical characterisation. Research interests: The interface of materials science, photonics and biotechnology; optical characterisation, ultrasensitive detection of analytes, biosensing, bioimaging; materials synthesis and characterisation and cathodoluminescence. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	A/Professor Ben Herbert Protein separation technologies Recipient of MQ Vice-Chancellor's Innovation Fellowship Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	A/Professor Bridget Mabbutt BSc (Chemistry)(Hons), PhD (Chemistry) (Syd) Research interests: Solving the three-dimensional structures of bio-molecules; the recombinant expression of these molecules, and their function and structure. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Dr Sham Nair Research Interests: Host-pathogen interactions in invertebrates from genomic and molecular perspectives. Current projects: Investigating the generation of diversity in the 185/333 gene family in echinoderms; evolution of immune gene families in deuterostomes from a comparative genomics perspective; molecular basis of re-infection immunity in insects; and the effects of biotic and abiotic stressors on immune reactivity in marine invertebrate. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Professor David Raftos Research interests: Evolution of defence: Investigates the internal defence (immune) mechanisms of advanced invertebrtes (ascidians/tunicates) at the cell and molecular biological levels. The overall goals of this works are (i) to determine the ways in which invertebrate animals defence themselves from investion, and (ii) to study the ways in which immune mechanisms have evolved throughout the animal kingdom. Effects of environmental pollutants on marine invertebrates. Studies the effects of environmental pollutants on the cell and molecular biological systems of common marine invertebrates (ascidians/tunicates). The aims of this research are (i) to identify the cellular systems that are affected by specific pollutants, and determine the ramifications of those cellular effects of the whole animal, and (ii) to develop rapid and reproducible cell or molecular biological assays for the biomonitoring of pollution. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Professor Shoba Ranganathan Shoba is one the few principal researchers in the world working in several key areas of bioinformatics, to understand biological systems using computational approaches. A former director of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), she is highly acclaimed internationally for her numerous contributions to bioinformatics education. Research interests: Computational structural biology and comparative genome sequence analysis. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Dr Anwar Sunna Senior Research Fellow and Program Leader Manager Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Dr Junior Te'o Recipient of Vice Chancellor's Innovation Fellowship Research Interests: a) Recombinant gene/protein expression, development and scale-up production/fermentation using a number of different microbial host systems. b) Synthetic Biology and Biofuels: genetic design, process design/development/production of renewable and sustainable 'drop in' replacements for crude oil in processes associated with current fuels and chemicals. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	A/Professor Rob Willows Research interests: Chlorophyll biosynthesis and plant hormones; the biological processes in milling wheat to make flour (in association with the CRC for Innovative Grain Food Products). Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full

Adjuncts

Affiliated members

Postgraduates

	Hana Faisal J Bali Supervisor: Professor Helena Nevalainen Thesis title: Modification of protease production in the filamentous fungus Trichoderma
	Sinead Blaber Supervisor: Professor Benjamin Herbert Thesis title: Anti-inflammatory effects of adipose derived cells and secretions
	Katy Breakwell Supervisors: Professor Ian Paulsen and A/Professor Paul Haynes Thesis title: Systems Biology Analysis of Secondary Metabolite Production in Biocontra Pseudomonas Species
	Andrew Care Supervisor: Professor Helena Nevalainen Thesis title: Development of a Solid Matrix Capture System for Environmental Pathogens and Related Proteins
	Elsa Chacko Supervisors: Professor Shoba Ranganathan and Professor Helena Nevalainen Thesis title: Transcript Diversity and Conservation of Alternative Splicing Events by Whole Genome Comparison
	Clara Wai Yuen Cheah Supervisors: Professor Nicki Packer and Professor Helena Nevalainen Thesis title: Sugar-protein interactions: the first line of defence against pathogens
	Jenny Chik Supervisor: A/Professor Mark Molloy Thesis title: Glyoprotein markers of toxicity to chemotherapy in colorectal cancer
	Nicole Cordina Supervisor: Dr Louise Brown Thesis title: Pushing the Limits of Paramagnetic Relaxation Enhancement - The Structure of Troponin
	Sibasish Dolai Supervisor: A/Professor Mark Molloy Thesis title: Quantitative proteomics using chemical probes
	Joshua Edwards Supervisor: A/Professor Brian Atwell Thesis title: Energy metabolism of germinating rice - regulation of ATP turnover
	Arun Vijay Everest Dass Supervisor: Professor Nicki Packer Thesis title: Body fluids: sweet protection against infection?
	Renan Ali Ersoy Supervisor: Dr Tom Roberts and A/Professor Brian Atwell Thesis title: Functional expression analyses of serpin genes in Arabidopsis and rice
	Phyllis Farmer Supervisor: A/Professor Robert Willows Thesis title: Application of an inplanta transcerit expression system for genetic and biochemical of the structure and function of magnesium chelatase
	Daniel John Farrugia Supervisors: Professor Ian Paulsen and A/Professor Bridget Mabbutt Thesis title: Mechanisms of drug resistance in Acinetobacter
	Sheila Francis Supervisors: A/Professor Brian Atwell Thesis title: Identification and expression of serpins in rice
	Gagan Garg Supervisor: Professor Shoba Ranganathan Thesis title: Advanced Computational Methods for Mitochondrial DNA Analysis
	Sophia Goodchild Supervisor: Dr Louise Brown Thesis title: Structural Studies of CLIC Ion Channels
	Karthikeyan Gunasekaran Supervisor: Professor Helena Nevalainen Thesis title: Optimization and Stabilization of an Isothermal Application System
	Andre Hallen Supervisors: A/Professor Robert Willows and A/Professor Paul Haynes Thesis title: Amino acid metabolism and mental illness
	Cameron Hill Supervisors: A/Professor Benjamin Herbert and A/Professor Paul Haynes Thesis title: Proteomics of human adipose stem cells
	Kathryn Louise Hughes Supervisor: Professor Michael Gillings and Emeritus Professor Peter Bergquist Thesis title: Exploring the bacterial diversity of the McMurdo dry valleys, Antarctica
	Jeff Kelly Supervisors: A/Professor Brian Atwell Thesis title: Productivity and water use of Australian forests under climatic change
	Ante Jerkovic Supervisor: A/Professor Robert Willows and A/Professor Brian Atwell Thesis title: Biochemical Studies on Wheat Grain to Improve Milling Performance
	Javed Mohammed Khan Supervisors: Professor Shoba Ranganathan and A/Professor Bridget Mabbutt Thesis title: A bioformatics approach to structure-based T cell epitope prediction
	Varun Khanna Supervisor: Professor Shoba Ranganathan Thesis title: Molecular similarity and diversity analysis of bioactive small molecules using chemoinformatics approaches
	Rajeev Koundinya Nagarajan Supervisor: Professor Helena Nevalainen Thesis title: Noval Nitrilases from Filamentous Fungi
	Christoph Krisp Supervisors: A/Professor Mark Molloy and A/Professor Paul Haynes Thesis title: Proteomic Analysis of Human Wounds Fluids
	Gaurav Kumar Supervisor: Professor Shoba Ranganathan Thesis title: Bioinformatics Integration and Analysis of Omic Data
	Ling Yen Lee Supervisors: Professor Nicki Packer, Professor Bill Hancock and A/Professor Paul Haynes Thesis title: Identification of novel biomarkers for breast cancer
	Chee Lim Supervisor: Professor Ian Paulsen Thesis title: Lateral gene transfer and secondary metabolite biosynthesis in Pseudomonas spp
	Michael Mariani Supervisor: A/Professor Paul Haynes Thesis title: Development of chip-based Mass Spectrometry Proteomics Techniques
	Juan Martinez-Aguilar Supervisor: A/Professor Mark Molloy and A/Professor Paul Haynes Thesis title: Mass Spectrometry Investigation of Plasma Biomarkers for Colon Cancer
	Michael Medynskyj Supervisors: A/Professor Benjamin Herbert and A/Professor Paul Haynes Thesis title: Proteomic analysis of adipose-denied stem cells
	Ranjeet Menon Supervisor: Professor Shoba Ranganathan Thesis title: Computational Systems Biology of Host-Parasite Interactions
	Mehdi Mirzei Supervisors: A/Professor Paul Haynes and A/Professor Brian Atwell Thesis title: Functional proteomics of drought response in rice
	Suja Mohammed Supervisor: Professor Helena Nevalainen Thesis title: Prospecting for novel cold active enzymes and the genes from Antarctic microfungi; and isolation and characterisation of a lipase gene from Penicillium expansum
	Jens Mark Moll Supervisors: A/Professor Bridget Mabbutt and A/Professor Paul Haynes Thesis title: Structural Organisation of Yeast LSM Complexes
	Sridevi Muralidharan Supervisor: A/Professor Paul Haynes Thesis title: Proteomic analysis of water stress in grapes
	Jerran Naidoo Supervisor: Dr Benjamin Herbert Thesis title: Proteomics of differentiated stem cells
	Karlie Ann Neilson Supervisor: A/Professor Paul Haynes Thesis title: Analysis of protein complexes in plants
	Sarah Alison Randall Supervisor: A/Professor Mark Molloy Thesis title: Plasma biomarkers in cancer
	Andrew Scafaro Supervisor: A/Professor Brian Atwell Thesis title: Physiological and molecular mechanisms of heat stress tolerance in wild and domesticated rice
	Bhumika Shripal Shah Supervisor: A/Professor Bridget Mabbutt Thesis title: Structural and functional genomics of acinetobacter baumannii
	Prasanth Subramani Supervisor: Professor Ian Paulsen Thesis title: Geonomics of emerging nosocomial pathogens: Burkholderia and acine to bacter species
	Juliet Suich Supervisor: A/Professor Brian Atwell Thesis title: Characterising the growth and development of Australian wild rices
	Angela Yu-Hsin Sun Supervisor: Professor Helena Nevalainen Thesis title: Expression of obestatin in filamentous fungus Trichoderma reesei
	Visaahini Sureshan Supervisor: A/Professor Bridget Mabbutt Thesis title: Protein structures selected from the environmental cassette metagenome
	John Taylor Supervisor: A/Professor Brian Atwell Thesis title: Quantifying the architecture of Australian wild rice relatives
	Vignesh Venkatakrishnan Supervisor: Professor Nicki Packer Thesis title: Interactions of microbial pathogens with sputum from cystic fibrosis patients.
	Rebecca Webster Supervisor: A/Professor Benjamin Herbert Thesis title: The role of adipose stem cells in osteoarthritis
	Katherine Wongtrakul-Kish Supervisors: Professor Nicki Packer and A/Professor Ben Herbert Thesis title: Carbohydrate-specific markers of breast cancer

	Professor Nicki Packer (Director) BSc, PhD (Syd) Formerly Executive Vice President of the biotechnology company Proteome Systems, Nicki was part of the team that set up the Australian Proteome Analysis Facility at Macquarie. She is a senior editor of Proteomics and holds several patents in glycobiology. Research interests: The post-translational modification of proteins by sugars (glycomics). This encompasses the role of glycosylation in many systems including the innate immune system, cancer glycomics and improved techniques for analysis of glycoproteins. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Professor Ian Paulsen (Deputy Director) BSc (Hons), PhD (Monash) An expert in genomics, Ian worked for several years as an investigator for the Institute for Genomic Research in the US, where he led the sequencing of many microbial genomes. He is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher and holds a NSW Life Science Research Award at Macquarie. Ian is currently using genome sequencing, metagenomics and functional genomics to understand how lateral gene transfer in bacteria enables them to adapt to different environmental niches Research interests: Understanding microbial physiology and evolution through global approaches such as genome sequencing, metagenomics, bioinformatics, transcriptomics and proteomics. Research interests: Understanding microbial physiology and evolution through global approaches such as genome sequencing, metagenomics, bioinformatics, transcriptomics and proteomics. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Professor Mark Baker BSc (Hons), PhD (Macquarie) Mark has many years' experience managing research programs in academic, industrial and clinical cancer discovery. At Macquarie his team focuses on molecular cell proteomics. An advocate for the commercialisation of Australian biotechnology, he is Chair of the HUPO Nominations Committee. Research interests: Advanced proteomic technologies, cancer metastasis and how proteases (their receptors, partners and inhibitors) regulate biological processes. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Emeritus Professor Peter Bergquist MSc (Hons), PhD, DSc (Auckland) Peter is regarded as an international authority on the cloning and high-level expression of genes coding for enzymes useful to industry. His pioneering work includes developing novel methods for enzyme evolution, and using them to modify thermophile enzymes for improved performance in biofuels research and oil and gas recovery. He has published extensively on the diversity of culturable and unculturable thermophilic bacteria, and chairs the Ramaciotti Gene Function Analysis Management Committee. Research interests: The high-level expression of industrially-useful enzymes in fungal hosts, and rapid methods for the field detection of environmental pathogens using isothermal nucleic acids amplification. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Professor Bill Hancock An expert in clinical proteomics, Bill has worked as a principal scientist at Hewlett Packard Laboratories, and is a former Vice President of Proteomics at ThermoFisher. He was President of the California Separation Science Society for 10 years and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Proteomic Research. His honours include the Martin Gold Medal in Separation Science (British Chromatographic Society) and the ACS Award in Chromatography. Research interests: Disease mechanisms; the discovery of potential therapeutic agents by lectin enrichment and proteomic analysis of biological fluids and tissue samples. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Professor Paul Haynes BAppScs (UTS), PhD (Macquarie) Before joining Macquarie, Paul pursued a research career in the US, including working at the Rockefeller University in New York, and as Associate Professor at the University of Arizona. In 2006 he took up a New South Wales Government Biofirst Fellowship. He has published 55 scientific papers, is a senior editor for Proteomics, and has four issued patents. Research interests: Environmental proteomics; applying protein identification and characterisation by mass spectrometry to solve problems in plant biology. Recent projects include: molecular analysis of hot and cold temperature stress in rice plants; heavy metal stress on Sydney rock oysters and amphipods; geographical adaptation to environmental stresses in Pachycladon, an endemic New Zealand plant. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	A/Professor Mark Molloy BSc (Hons), PhD (Biochemistry) (Macquarie) Mark is a biochemist with 14 years' experience in proteomics. He completed his post-doctoral training at the University of Michigan Medical School. Later he worked in the proteomics R & D group at Pfizer, leading a team to identify biomarkers of new drug entities. He is currently Director of the Australian Proteome Analysis Facility. Research interests: Using proteomic technologies for cancer research. This research sits at the interface of biochemistry/cell biology/analytical chemistry/clinical chemistry. The group uses quantitative mass spectrometry and other bioanalytical techniques including electrophoresis and chromatography. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Professor Helena Nevalainen BSc (Genetics), MSc (Genetics), PhD (Genetics) (Helsinki) Helena is an experienced research manager, and has worked in the biotechnology industry on strain and product development. She has also researched for multinational biotech companies in the US and Finland. A member of the Academy of Finland as an expert in fungal biotechnology, she has published over 120 papers in refereed journals. Research interests: Molecular biology and the enzymology of biotechnologically important filamentous fungi. This includes biological control mediated by fungi, fungal proteomics and molecular prospecting of the environment for novel bioactivities and valuable gene products. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full

	A/Professor Brian Atwell Research interests: Cell responses to abiotic factors, using molecular and proteomic techniques to identify key changes when rice plants are chilled, heated or deprived of oxygen. The effects of elevated CO₂ on plant function. In particular, using classical plant physiology to define the experimental conditions under which stress is assessed at the gene level. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Dr Louise Brown BMedSci (Hons), PhD (Syd) Research interests: Using biophysical spectroscopy techniques to determine the structure of proteins. Conformational changes that accompany the function of proteins. The main technique involves spectroscopic probes or labels that can report on the local environment of the protein. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Professor Michael Gillings BA, BSc (Hons), PhD (Macquarie) Seven of his recent publications have been listed as 'must read' or 'recommended' on the Faculty of 1000 website. Research interests: The exploration of genetic diversity in a range of organisms. Current projects investigate lateral gene transfer in bacteria, population structure in freshwater fish and sharks, and molecular prospecting as a means of recovering novel genes and gene products. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Professor Ewa Goldys Ewa's expertise spans the fields of biophotonics, optical characterisation, ultrasensitive detection of analytes, biosensing and bioimaging. She has also developed advanced methods of synthesis and characterisation of fluorescent nanoparticles for applications in fluorescence labelling. Her current research draws on her achievements in materials science and ultrasensitive optical characterisation. Research interests: The interface of materials science, photonics and biotechnology; optical characterisation, ultrasensitive detection of analytes, biosensing, bioimaging; materials synthesis and characterisation and cathodoluminescence. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	A/Professor Ben Herbert Protein separation technologies Recipient of MQ Vice-Chancellor's Innovation Fellowship Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	A/Professor Bridget Mabbutt BSc (Chemistry)(Hons), PhD (Chemistry) (Syd) Research interests: Solving the three-dimensional structures of bio-molecules; the recombinant expression of these molecules, and their function and structure. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Dr Sham Nair Research Interests: Host-pathogen interactions in invertebrates from genomic and molecular perspectives. Current projects: Investigating the generation of diversity in the 185/333 gene family in echinoderms; evolution of immune gene families in deuterostomes from a comparative genomics perspective; molecular basis of re-infection immunity in insects; and the effects of biotic and abiotic stressors on immune reactivity in marine invertebrate. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Professor David Raftos Research interests: Evolution of defence: Investigates the internal defence (immune) mechanisms of advanced invertebrtes (ascidians/tunicates) at the cell and molecular biological levels. The overall goals of this works are (i) to determine the ways in which invertebrate animals defence themselves from investion, and (ii) to study the ways in which immune mechanisms have evolved throughout the animal kingdom. Effects of environmental pollutants on marine invertebrates. Studies the effects of environmental pollutants on the cell and molecular biological systems of common marine invertebrates (ascidians/tunicates). The aims of this research are (i) to identify the cellular systems that are affected by specific pollutants, and determine the ramifications of those cellular effects of the whole animal, and (ii) to develop rapid and reproducible cell or molecular biological assays for the biomonitoring of pollution. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Professor Shoba Ranganathan Shoba is one the few principal researchers in the world working in several key areas of bioinformatics, to understand biological systems using computational approaches. A former director of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), she is highly acclaimed internationally for her numerous contributions to bioinformatics education. Research interests: Computational structural biology and comparative genome sequence analysis. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Dr Anwar Sunna Senior Research Fellow and Program Leader Manager Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Dr Junior Te'o Recipient of Vice Chancellor's Innovation Fellowship Research Interests: a) Recombinant gene/protein expression, development and scale-up production/fermentation using a number of different microbial host systems. b) Synthetic Biology and Biofuels: genetic design, process design/development/production of renewable and sustainable 'drop in' replacements for crude oil in processes associated with current fuels and chemicals. Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	A/Professor Rob Willows Research interests: Chlorophyll biosynthesis and plant hormones; the biological processes in milling wheat to make flour (in association with the CRC for Innovative Grain Food Products). Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full

	Dr Liam Elbourne Research Fellow Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Dr Susan Fanayan Research Fellow Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Dr Karl Hassan Research Fellow Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Dr David Inglis Australian Postdoctoral Fellow Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Dr Liisa Kautto Research Fellow Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Dr Amanda Mackie Research Assistant, Bioinformatics Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Dr Matthew McKay Postgraduate Fellow Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Dr Leon McQuade Senior Scientific Officer Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Dr Robyn Peterson Research Fellow
	Dr Nishen Naidoo Research Fellow Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Dr Sasha Tetu Research Fellow Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Dr Morten Thaysen-Andersen Visiting Research Fellow University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full
	Dr Sock-Hwee Tan Research Fellow Full profile \| Contact \| Publications: Selected \| Full

Macquarie University

People

Management committee

Professor Nicki Packer (Director)

Professor Ian Paulsen (Deputy Director)

Professor Mark Baker

Emeritus Professor Peter Bergquist

Professor Bill Hancock

Professor Paul Haynes

A/Professor Mark Molloy

Professor Helena Nevalainen

Members

A/Professor Brian Atwell

Dr Louise Brown

Professor Michael Gillings

Professor Ewa Goldys

A/Professor Ben Herbert

A/Professor Bridget Mabbutt

Dr Sham Nair

Professor David Raftos

Professor Shoba Ranganathan

Dr Anwar Sunna

Dr Junior Te'o

A/Professor Rob Willows

Adjuncts

Dr Belinda Ferrari

Dr Graham Vesey

Affiliated members

Dr Liam Elbourne

Dr Susan Fanayan

Dr Karl Hassan

Dr David Inglis

Dr Liisa Kautto

Dr Amanda Mackie

Dr Matthew McKay

Dr Leon McQuade

Dr Robyn Peterson

Dr Nishen Naidoo

Dr Sasha Tetu

Dr Morten Thaysen-Andersen

Dr Sock-Hwee Tan

Postgraduates

Hana Faisal J Bali

Sinead Blaber

Katy Breakwell

Andrew Care

Elsa Chacko

Clara Wai Yuen Cheah

Jenny Chik

Nicole Cordina

Sibasish Dolai

Joshua Edwards

Arun Vijay Everest Dass

Renan Ali Ersoy

Phyllis Farmer

Daniel John Farrugia

Sheila Francis

Gagan Garg

Sophia Goodchild

Karthikeyan Gunasekaran

Andre Hallen

Cameron Hill

Kathryn Louise Hughes

Jeff Kelly

Ante Jerkovic

Javed Mohammed Khan

Varun Khanna

Rajeev Koundinya Nagarajan

Christoph Krisp

Gaurav Kumar

Ling Yen Lee

Chee Lim

Michael Mariani

Juan Martinez-Aguilar

Michael Medynskyj

Ranjeet Menon

Mehdi Mirzei

Suja Mohammed

Jens Mark Moll

Sridevi Muralidharan