Infectious Diseases Systems Epidemiology (multiple projects)

The Infectious Diseases Systems Epidemiology Working Group is headed by Professor Alyssa Barry, who also has a laboratory at Deakin University’s Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation (IMPACT) in Geelong.

Research in the lab focuses predominantly on malaria, and we also have projects focusing on COVID-19 and Buruli ulcer.

We conduct genomic and immunological analyses of samples from large, well-designed epidemiological studies to understand pathogen transmission dynamics, virulence, drug resistance, antigenic diversity and the development of immunity in the human host. Techniques used include molecular biology, genomics, serology, bioinformatics, population genetics, biostatistics and machine learning.

A number of exciting student projects are available including:

• prevalence of copy number variants associated with antimalarial drug resistance in Papua New Guinea
• the impact of malaria control on genomic biomarkers of within-host infection complexity
• genomic epidemiology of resurgent malaria in Papua New Guinea
• genomic architecture of emerging artemisinin-resistant malaria in Papua New Guinea
  And more!

Please get in touch for more information.