Jennifer Simpson is a post-doctoral researcher at WIMR in Sydney, Australia. She completed her PhD at the University of Queensland before completing a post-doc at the National Institutes of Health in the USA. Her current work involves studying the phenotype and TCR repertoire of CD8 T-cells in HIV infection.

Elouise Dunn is an honours student at the University of Melbourne based at The Peter Doherty Institute (Melbourne). Supervised by Dr. Sushama Telwatte, her project focuses on using small molecule inhibitors and gene silencing for disrupting specific host pathways affecting HIV gene expression and survival of infected cells.

Trisha is an Honours student in the Pasricha Lab at the Department of Infectious Diseases, Doherty Institute. She completed her Bachelor of Biomedicine at the University of Melbourne in 2025. Her current research focuses on leveraging CRISPR-based diagnostics for rapid HIV viral load monitoring to support global HIV cure efforts.

My name is Kirsten Amos and I am a PhD candidate with the Lewin laboratory working on HIV cure science in Melbourne. My work broadly covers areas of Virology and Immunology.

Fiona is a Section 100 GP with degrees in Microbiology and Medicine. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of GPs. She has been working in the area of LGBT health and HIV medicine since 2001, and has an active interest in research.

Inam is a PhD candidate under the supervision of Prof Isabelle Rouiller and Prof Damian Purcell in the Department of Biochmeistry and Pharmacology at the University of Melbourne. Inam completed his Masters degree in biotechnology at the Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.

Farida Darmani is an honours student at the University of Melbourne based at The Doherty Institute (Melbourne). Supervised by Dr Sushama Telwatte, her project focuses on development of an in-house genotyping and transcription profiling pipeline for investigating Low-Level Viremia in HIV and advancing ribosome profiling tools to understand HIV persistence.

Abigail Tan is a Research Support Officer based in the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity. She is mainly involved in the research that focuses on utilising lipid nanoparticle-based mRNA therapeutics for HIV latency reversal.

Leon Wang completed a Bachelor of Science in Computational Biology and Master of Biostatistics at the University of Melbourne, and is currently a first year PhD researcher at the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, where he is currently involved in researching and creating a bioinformatic toolkit for antibody discovery.