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Research Interest
🔬Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Microbial Pathogenesis & Adaptation | Burkholderia bacteria expert
As an early-career researcher, my objective is to connect fundamental biology with applied research to create long-lasting therapies, predictive instruments, and customized diagnostics that can outsmart bacterial resistance.
I focus on Burkholderia bacteria — a genus recognized for its remarkable adaptability, along with phenotypic and genomic plasticity. These bacteria serve as both potent environmental allies, aiding agriculture and plant development, and as formidable opportunistic pathogens capable of inducing severe infections such as melioidosis and 'cepacia syndrome' in immunocompromised patients or people suffering from cystic fibrosis. Mortality rates may reach as high as 50%.
Research & Education Path
Research Profile
Funding
Professional Activities & Service
Teaching & Supervision
PRIZES, HONOURS & AWARDS
ASM Travel Award (AU$ 4,000) 2026
AWiS Professional Development Fund
(AU$ 1,250) 2025
ISME Sponsorship grant
(AU$ 2,500) 2025
AWiS Professional Development Fund
(AU$ 700) 2023
UTS Staff Conference funding
(AU$ 2,000) 2023
Conference Scholarship Armand-Frappier Health and Biotechnology – INRS
(CA$ 500) 2019
Armand-Frappier Health and Biotechnology – INRS Ambassador Scholarship
(CA$ 300) 2018
Erasmus Scholarship
(€1,500) 2014
RESEARCH INCOME
AIMI Seed Funding
(AU$ 5,000) 2024
UTS Faculty of Science Seed Funding
(AU$ 9,980) 2024
Early Career Researcher Capability Development Initiative
(AU$ 13,000) 2024
RESEARCH SUPERVISION
Co-supervised 13 students to completion
(2 PhDs, 3 Msc, 2 Honours, 2 Bsc, & 4 research interns) 2019-Current
TEACHING
Lecturer/Demonstrator for 1 AI workshop Honours CSE, Flinders University 2026
Lecturer and lead demonstrator for Introduction Pharmacology and Microbiology (92354), UTS 2025
Lead demonstrator Practical classes and workshops for Cell biology and Genetics (91161), UTS 2024
Demonstrator 1 practical class for Introduction Pharmacology and Microbiology (92354), UTS 2024
Demonstrator 1 R workshop for Master of Biotechnology (91569/91574), UTS 2024; 2025
🔍 Research Focus & Skills
Bacterial pathogenesis, phase variation, quorum sensing
Genomics, transcriptomics, methylomics, proteomics
Molecular biology and genetic engineering
Virulence and antibiotic resistance assays
Cell and plant infection models
PEER REVIEW
Reviewer for Investigator NHMRC scheme
2025
Selected ECR for ISME Reviewer Pool Q1 Microbiology journal
2025
UTS Honours Project assessment (4 students, including proposals, seminars and final thesis) 2024-Current
Internal grant reviewer for Discovery project scheme (ARC)
2024
Grant reviewer for Amgen Scholars Program 2021 & 2022
Scientific manuscript reviewer for Microbiology journals (ISME 1x, mSystem 2x, Access Microbiol 2x, Front. Microbiol. 1x, J. Med. Microbiol. 2x, Scientific Reports 1x)
2019-Current
EVENT ORGANISING & COMMITTEE
ASM NSW/ACT Branch VSP Event (x1 organization)
UTS, Australia 2025
Organizing committee for the UTS Biosciences Seminar
UTS, Australia 2025
UTS Early Career Academic Network committee UTS, Australia 2025
Sydney Protein group representative & host of Thompson Prize 2024 (x1)
UTS, Australia 2024-Current
Research Events group committee - Stinear Laboratory,
UniMelb, Australia 2022-2023
Member of Early-Mid Career Researchers Association committee the School of Biomedical Sciences
UniMelb, Australia 2022-2023
Student representative for the research committee, animal experiment committee & Biology PhD program committee
INRS, Canada 2017-2018
President of the BlueBioBreizh organisation – University of South Brittany, France 2014-2015
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Famelab 2025 – Semi-finalist 2025
Mentor for Mentor Science+ Science Extension, Australia 2024
Volunteer as a Speaker for the SoapBox event, Australia 2022
Volunteer as Venue Manager for the Pint of Sciences event, Australia 2022
Volunteer work during the Symbiosis and Pathogenesis of integrative bacteriology Conference, Canada 2019
Scientific conference, Guest Speaker, Collège Brébeuf, Canada 2018
Poster presentation in a public library to introduce children to science, Canada 2018
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