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Dr Stefano Giulieri

Dr Stefano Giulieri

+61 3 8344 5701 | stefano.giulieri@unimelb.edu.au

Position:
Clinician Researcher and Infectious Diseases Physician
Theme(s):
Antimicrobial Resistance, Bacterial and Parasitic Infections, Computational Science and Genomics, Clinical and Health Systems Research
Discipline(s):
Computational Science and Genomics, Clinical and health systems research
Unit(s):
The University of Melbourne, Department of Microbiology and Immunology (DMI) , Department of Medicine (Austin Health), Victorian Infectious Diseases Service (VIDS)
Lab Group(s):
Howden Group

Dr Stefano Giulieri is a clinician researcher with a special interest in staphylococcal genomics and orthopaedic infections. He is passionate about using evolutionary biology, statistical genomics and machine learning approaches to answer clinical questions in infectious diseases. He is particularly interested in how bacteria like the hospital superbug Staphylococcus aureus, evolve within patients during severe infections to evade both antibiotics and immune responses. He is an Infectious Diseases Physician at the Royal Melbourne Hospital where he has a clinic specialised in orthopaedics infections. Before moving to Melbourne, he was the Head of the Infectious Diseases Consultation in the Orthopaedics Department at the Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland.

  • Key Achievements
    • Stefano was awarded his MD at the University of Basel in Switzerland and is a fellow of both the Swiss Medical Association (FMH) and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) in Infectious Diseases. He completed his PhD in bacterial genomics at the University of Melbourne in 2022. He has been recipient of the following awards and grants:

      Melbourne Genomics Immersion Fellowship (2023)

      Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases (SSI)/SAFE-ID Award for basic research (2018)

      Travel grant of the International Symposium on Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections (2016)

      Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) - Program Committee Award (2012)

    Publications
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    Research Groups
    • 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