Associate Professor Ashraful Haque is a lab head and a lead for the Bacterial and Parasitic Infections theme at the Doherty Institute. He completed a PhD on Salmonella pathogenesis in 2002, with Gordon Dougan at Imperial College, London. After a post-doctoral fellowship on immune responses to the bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei, at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, he moved to Australia in 2005 to work on parasitic infections at QIMR in Brisbane, with Christian Engwerda. He received his first NHMRC grant in 2010, and started a research group at QIMR Berghofer in 2012. With NHMRC Project and Ideas Grants, and ARC Discovery funding, he has studied host/parasite interactions in blood-stage malaria, with a specific interest in single-cell genomics.
