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The McDonald Lab
Laboratory for Microbial Experimental Evolution @ Monash University
Dr. Aysha Sezmis
NHMRC Research Fellow
MACSYS Research Fellow
Dr. Rebecca Gorrell
2010 - present
Chris Blake
Research Fellow
Chris' research focuses on eco- evolutionary dynamics in bacteria and plant-microbe systems.
Storme de Scally
Research Fellow
Storme's research focused on studying model, complex microbial communities in laboratory microcosms.
Soffi Law
Ph.D Candidate
Soffi is a GEMS Ph.D fellow based in Monash Malaysia and Monash Australia. Their reasearch focuses on the interactions of antimicrobials with the TolC receptor of S. Sonnei.
Ph. D Candidate
Disha Chaudhary
Ph.D Candidate
Disha is a ITTB-Monash Ph. D fellow. Their reasearch focuses on the tension between cooperation and competition in experimetnal populations of S. cerevisiae.
Atharva Bhide
Atharva's Ph. D is focused on understanding the evolution of multi-species microbial communities on the roots of Canola plants grown in the lab.
2010 - present
Ziqi Shen
Ph. D Candidate - MACSYS
Ziqi is cosupervised by Traude Beilharz, and will be working on the evolution of Central Carbon Metabolism across the tree of life.
Sehrish Kiani
PhD Candidate
Sehrish is a PhD student working on understanding the evolution of complex mutispecies communities.
Bo Ya Looi
Ph. D Candidate - MACSYS
Bo Ya is co-supervised by Trevor Lithgow, and will be working on the evolution and molecular biology of the Klebsiella cell membrane.
Farin Progga
Honours Candidate
Farin is working with on H. pylori - trying to the determine the conditions that promote resistance to Amoxicillin, and the genetic basis of resistance.
Shivathmika Sampath
Masters Candidate
Athmi is working with on H. pylori - modH protein - and how and whether it regulates transcription by DNA binding, and thereby impacting AMR evolution.
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Bethany Orme
Honours Candidate
Bethany will be looking to expand our understanding of fungi that colonise the Canola rhizosphere.
Lab Alumni:
Raju Dantuluri (Masters of Biotechnology)
Helen Nguyen (3990)
Anna Borzyak (3990)
Mahnaz Khamooshi (Masters Genome Analytics)
Ziming Wang ( Masters Genome Analytics)
Huitong Mo (Masters Genome Analytics)
Ruzeen Patwa (Research Assistant)
Dr Gareth Howells (Ph. D)
Dr Shimul MH Chowdhury (Postdoc)
Dr An Nguyen (Ph. D)
Sharikul Huda ((Masters of Biotechnology))
Mariel Beiers (Honours)
Dr Duhita Sant (Ph. D)
Dr. Jake Barber (Ph. D)
Dr Laura Woods (Ph. D)
Bronson O'Halloran (Honours)
Jasmyn Voss (Honours and Research Assistant
Shami Ramanan (Honours)
Trent Anderson (Honours)
Luke Nicholson (Honours)
Rebecca Tooze (3990 undergraduate research)
Emily Watts (3990 undergraduate research)
Imogen Scott (3990 undergraduate research)
Frank Taylor (Honours)
Thomas Brasher (3990 undergraduate research)
Jimmy Tanner (undergraduate volunteer)
Angel Liang (undergraduate volunteer)
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