I completed my PhD at La Trobe University examining the livestock parasitic trematode liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica). I used a novel immunoproteomic technique to identify antigens targeted by the host immune response and to examine the parasite response to antibody binding to the parasite surface and identified that different antigens are identified by resistant and susceptible host species, providing new insight into host-parasite interactions of F. hepatica, as well as identifying a novel shortlist of vaccine candidate antigens for parasite control.

I am currently working as a research technician at La Trobe University in a group looking at proteins of interest in a range of parasitic, bacterial and viral animal diseases such as liver fluke, malaria, Babesia, foot rot and Pox viruses, with the long term aim of vaccine or drug development.