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Dr George Taiaroa


George Taiaroa (PhD, MRSNZ) leads a research program focused on the identification and characterisation of infectious diseases through next-generation sequencing and related approaches. He has been a Research Fellow at the Doherty Institute and held an honorary role at the Royal Melbourne Hospital's Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL) for more than five years. He is a member of multiple national and international research projects.

  • Research Groups
    • Stinear Group

      Tim Stinear’s group’s research addresses priorities across four connected themes that including hospital superbugs, pathogenic mycobacteria, natural product discovery and public health genomics that aim to understand and contain the spread of bacteria causing serious human disease. 


      Lab Team

      Stinear Group

      • Laboratory Head and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Mycobacterium ulcerans
      • Postdoctoral Researcher
      • Jessica Porter
        Laboratory Manager, Molecular microbiology
      • Dr Jean Lee
        Senior postdoctoral scientist, Molecular microbiology
      • Senior Researcher
      • Dr Louise Judd
        DAMG senior scientist, Genomics
      • Dr Geraldine Kong
        Postdoctoral scientist, Computational biology
      • Dr Andrew Buultjens
        Postdoctoral scientist, Computational biology
      • Dr Prashanth Ramachandran
        NHMRC Emerging Leader Investigator, Clinical metagenomics
      • Dr Liam Sharkey
        Senior postdoctoral scientist, Molecular microbiology
      • Dr Calum Walsh
        Senior postdoctoral scientist, Computational biology
      • Dr Nancy Wang
        Senior postdoctoral scientist, Immunology and microbiology
      • Dr Ryan Wick
        Postdoctoral scientist, Computational biology
      • Jessica Gu
        Project manager
      • Angela Donald
        Project manager
      • John Forsyth
        PhD student
      • Infectious Diseases Physician | Medical Education Consultant | PhD Candidate
      • Alexandra Krause
        PhD student
      • Rutaiwan Dusadeepong
        PhD student
      • Karolina Mercoulia
        PhD student
      • Sarah Zufan
        PhD student
      • Warasinee Mujchariyakul
        PhD student
      • Angaj Ghosh
        PhD student
      • Research Fellow
      • Dr Koen Vandelannoote
        Senior postdoctoral scientist, Honorary lab staff