Scientists and staff

Centre Head

• Professor Seth Masters

Deputy Centre Heads

• Professor Richard Ferrero
• Associate Professor Michelle Tate

Research Group Heads

• Professor Philip Bardin
• Dr Sophia Davidson
• Professor Richard Ferrero
• Professor Samuel Forster
• Professor Michael Gantier
• Professor Elizabeth Hartland AM, Institute Director
• Professor Paul Hertzog
• Associate Professor Kate Lawlor
• Professor Seth Masters
• Associate Professor Michelle Tate
• Professor Carl Walkley
• Dr Wilson Wong

Senior Research Scientist

• Dr Nicole de Weerd
• Dr Edward Giles
• Dr Jacki Heraud-Farlow
• Dr Natália Sampaio

Research Scientist

• Dr Belinda Thomas

Postdoctoral Scientist

• Dr Rebecca Ambrose
• Dr Nicole Campbell
• Dr Eva Chan
• Dr Julia Chitty
• Dr Michelle Chonwerawong
• Dr Yuliia Faidiuk
• Dr Shouya Feng
• Dr Cristina Giogha
• Dr Emily Gulliver
• Dr Christopher Harpur
• Dr Hani Hosseini Far, IPS cell specialist
• Dr Maggie Lam
• Dr Roxanne Liou
• Dr Alexandra McAllan, Bioinformatician
• Dr Kathleen McCaffrey
• Dr Garrett Ng
• Dr Sunil Sapkota
• Dr Hariharan Sivaraman
• Dr Sarah Straub, Development Scientist, RNAte Technology Platform
• Dr Deepagan Veerasikku Gopal
• Dr Cait Welsh
• Dr Alison West
• Dr Raissa Wibawa
• Dr Atefeh (Ati) Yaftiyan
• Dr Sara Di Simone

Administrative Support

• Dr Marianne Mégroz, Centre Administrator

Honorary Fellow

• Professor Brendan Jenkins

Honorary Research Associates

• Professor Jane Bourke
• Dr Ruby Dawson
• Dr Jamie Gearing
• Dr Timothy Gottschalk
• Dr Marina Iacovou
• Dr Nicole Kellow
• Associate Professor Ashley Mansell
• Dr Timothy Patton
• Associate Professor Jaclyn Pearson
• Dr Saleela Ruwanpura
• Dr Feargal Ryan
• Dr Mohamed Saad
• Dr Caroline Skene, OHS Officer
• Dr Mary Speir
• Dr Remy Young

Laboratory Managers

• Louise McLeod, CiiiD Senior Laboratory Manager
• Dr Garrett Ng
• Natalie Nigro, CiiiD Junior Laboratory Manager

Research Support Staff

• Dr Paul Baker, Senior Research Assistant
• Jasmine Bell
• Imogen Bishop
• Madeline Cleveland
• Ankita Goradia
• Jodee Gould, Senior Research Specialist
• Jack Hertzog
• Dr Samantha Jayasekara
• Klara Kong
• Alice Larsen
• Justin Lim
• Antony Matthews
• Katherine Rosevear
• Emily Rutten, Senior Research Assistant
• Kimiya Sokhanshirin
• Scott Taylor
• Elissa Tonkin
• Georgie Wray-McCann, Research Assistant

PhD Students

• Alexandra Brodmann
• Anita Chaulagain
• Phoebe Cheong, Collaborating PhD Student
• Jasmine Chuah
• Angus Cramond
• Andreas Dumortier
• Jack Emery
• Rui Gao
• Shambel Haile
• Jamia Hemphill
• Dr Chee Hui
• Patricia Khoo
• Suet Li Hooi
• Sofia Maceratessi
• Nasim Mohseni, Collaborating PhD Student
• Dhanya Narayanan
• Ashlyn Pascoe
• Shayan Patel
• Refaya Rezwan
• Erandi Rupasinghe
• Emma Saltzman
• Jananipriya Sivamani
• Sean Solari
• Emily Troy
• Joshua Von Ameln
• Ruo Wang
• Ashley Wong
• Dianne Xu
• Jiaxing Yang
• Mengqi Zhang
• Elizabeth Zhang
• Dr Xiaohu Zhao
• Hongyu Zheng
• Maria Zyulina, Visiting PhD Student

Masters Students

• Eithne Cunney, Visiting Student
• Zhuoran Jiang
• Ramsha Khan
• Priya Narayanan Kumar
• Ziyue Qiu
• Qihao Sun
• Zhouxing Tan
• David Tran
• Shuchen Xiong
• Wenyu Xiong
• Xingjie Xu

Honours Students

• Krystal Chan
• Elaine Cheong
• Jade Gilbert
• Cayla Kingsley
• Sabrina Nguyen
• Jovita Quach
• Manishraj Sankar, Collaborating Honours Student

Undergraduate Student

• Hiba Ali
• Lily Rose Dean, Vacation Placement Student
• Siyu Gong, Vacation Student
• Devon Spilecki, Vacation Placement Student

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Student

• Isabella Simonovski

Victorian Infection and Immunity Network

• Madeleine Wemyss, Project Officer, VIIN