Project: Bacterial membrane vesicles and their role in promoting pathogenesis
Bacterial membrane vesicles are nanoparticles that are naturally produced by all bacteria as part of their normal growth. Bacterial membrane vesicles serve a range of key biological functions to ultimately promote pathogenesis, bacterial survival and antimicrobial resistance. This project focuses on examining the contribution of bacterial membrane vesicles to promoting pathogenesis and bacterial survival in various environments and conditions, in addition to elucidating the ability of bacterial membrane vesicles to mediate horizontal gene transfer. This project involves a variety of microbiology, immunology and imaging based techniques.
Research degrees at the Doherty Institute are administered by the University of Melbourne.