Dr Miranda Pitt
(03) 8344 9927 | miranda.pitt@unimelb.edu.au
- Position:
- Postdoctoral Research Officer
- Theme(s):
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Discipline(s):
- Discovery Research, Computational Science and Genomics, Public Health, Clinical and health systems research
- Unit(s):
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology (DMI)
- Lab Group(s):
- Coin group
Miranda completed her Bachelor of Biomedical Science degree at the University of Queensland (UQ) in 2013, which focused on Infectious Diseases, Immunology and Genetics. In 2014, she began her PhD at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, UQ. Her research delved into understanding the mode of action of last resort antibiotics against multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria and the genetic basis underpinning resistance. Her PhD was awarded in 2018 and she continued this work as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Since 2019, she works in Professor Lachlan Coin’s group at the University of Melbourne researching antimicrobial resistance, bacterial genomics and transcriptomics.