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Dr Michelle Wille


Dr. Michelle Wille is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Pathogen Genomics. She previously held a prestigious ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award at the University of Sydney. She has an ongoing honorary position at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza. Dr. Wille is interested in One Health-scale research, with a focus on viruses of wildlife. She is particularly interested in the ecology and evolution of avian influenza viruses, globally, as well as virus community ecology in avian systems. 

  • Key Achievements
    • Key achievements

      Michelle has been working with influenza A in wild bird systems since 2008 in Canada, Sweden and Australia, with stays at institutions in the USA, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. To date, she has published over 40 publications and have presented at a number of national and international conferences.

    Publications
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    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
    • Howden Group

      Research from Professor Ben Howden’s group uses genomics, molecular biology, epidemiology and clinical studies to address a broad range of issues related to invasive bacterial diseases in humans, especially those caused by staphylococci, enterococci and other antimicrobial-resistant species. Additionally, working closely with scientists in the MDU PHL, they investigate the epidemiology, evolution and spread of bacterial pathogens of public health significance such as Neisseria gonorrhoea, Listeria monocytogenes, Shigella and Salmonella spp., Legionella spp., and carbapenemase-producing gram-negative bacteria.


      Lab Team

      Howden Group

      • Director Of Microbiological Diagnostic Unit (MDU) Public Health Laboratory
      • Deputy Director, Microbiological Diagnostic Unit Public Health Laboratory
      • Adrianna Turner
        Research Assistant
      • Alexandra-Maria Blejusca
        Research Assistant
      • Ashleigh Hayes
        Research Assistant
      • Dr Calum Walsh
        Research Fellow
      • Dr Celeste Donato
        Research Fellow
      • Dr Chris Connor
        Research Fellow
      • NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow
      • Diane Daniel
        AMR Research Scientist
      • Eddie Chan
        PhD student
      • Emily Sotheran
        PhD student
      • Research Fellow
      • Senior Project Officer
      • Jake Soley
        PhD student
      • Dr Jean Lee
        Research Fellow
      • Dr Jessica Webb
        Research Fellow
      • Jia Qi Beh
        PhD student
      • Joseph Napier
        Masters student
      • Karolina Mercoulia
        PhD student
      • Katie Cronin
        PhD student
      • Lamali Sadeesh Kumar
        PhD student
      • Lejla Kartal
        PhD student
      • Dr Lisa Ioannidis
        Centre for Pathogen Genomics Coordinator
      • Dr Louise Judd
        CPG/DAMG Senior Genomics Scientist
      • Lucy Li
        Research Assistant
      • Maria Duarte Aguilera
        AMR Research Technical Assistant
      • Dr Marielle Babinear
        CPG / DAMG
      • Marwa Alhotali
        PhD student
      • Senior Research Fellow
      • Mona Taouk
        PhD student
      • Munazzah Maqbool
        PhD student
      • Neta Petersiel
        PhD student
      • Nick Lim
        PhD student
      • Dr Patiyan Andersson
        Research Fellow
      • Dr Paul Kinsella
        PhD student
      • Rachel Cass
        AMR Research Technical Assistant
      • Research Fellow
      • Dr Ryan Wick
        Research Fellow
      • Samriddhi Thakur
        PhD student
      • Dr Sarah Baines
        Research Fellow
      • Sher Maine Tan
        PhD student
      • Clinician Researcher and Infectious Diseases Physician
      • Taylor Harshegyi
        CPG / DAMG
      • Thinley Dorji
        PhD student
      • Warasinee Mujchariyakul
        PhD student