Associate Professor Kate Seib is the Associate Director (Research) and a Group Leader at the Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University Australia. Her expertise is in the field of molecular microbiology, with a focus on understanding virulence mechanisms and characterising vaccine candidates of human mucosal pathogens including Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

Dr Willa Huston is an Associate Professor researching the molecular microbiology of the intracellular pathogen Chlamydia. Particularly how the organism is involved in infertility and pelvic inflammatory disease in women. Her research is also focussed on improved and new strategies for treatment and diagnosis of chlamydia.

Dr Jennifer Danielewski is a molecular biologist who joined the Centre for Women’s Infectious Diseases at RWH in 2007. Her research focus has been on sexually transmitted infections primarily, human papillomavirus. Recent interest in genomic applications to investigate antibiotic resistance and strain dynamics in Chlamydia trachomatis and Mycoplasma genitalium.

Melinda is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Computational Microbiologist at The University of Melbourne, with a special interest in antimicrobial resistance, mobile genetic elements and the evolution of human pathogens. Melinda research is currently focused on investigating transmission, the dynamics of populations and antimicrobial resistance of sexually transmitted bacterial infections.

Dr Murray is the Senior Scientist in the Centre for Women’s Infectious Diseases at the Royal Women’s Hospital/University of Melbourne. He has an interest in diseases that affect women and neonates including human papillomavirus, sexually transmitted diseases, and the analysis of the human microbiota in health and disease.