Project: Bacterial membrane vesicles and their role in promoting pathogenesis
Liaskos Group
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.
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Liaskos Group
2 vacancies
The Liaskos group is primarily focused on understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms of host-pathogen interactions, with particular focus on bacterial pathogens and bacterial membrane vesicles. We use a range of microbiology and immunology-based techniques to examine how bacterial pathogens that infect humans cause disease, and how the host detects and responds to these pathogens and their products.
Liaskos Group Current Projects
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Immune responses to the human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
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Bacterial membrane vesicles and their role in promoting pathogenesis
PhD/MPhil, Master of Biomedical Science, Honours
Research degrees at the Doherty Institute are administered by the University of Melbourne.