Julio Carrera Montoya is an early career postdoctoral scientist at the Doherty Institute. His PhD was awarded in early 2022 under the supervision of Professor Cameron Simmons and Professor Jason Mackenzie at the University of Melbourne, Doherty Institute. Julio has years of experience in biomedical research, focused on vaccine development and the generation of molecular tools for the study and control of flaviviruses (ZIKV, DENV, JEV, MVEV, KUNV) and SARS-CoV-2. Julio´s expertise includes the design, generation and characterisation of vaccine candidates using different platforms and their efficacy testing in murine models. Julio’s work also include hands-on processing and imaging by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), fly and mosquito models in APC3 for the study of intracellular symbiotic bacteria (Wolbachia) that control the replication of flaviviruses in vivo and an industry-driven research agreement for the characterisation of a broad-spectrum antivirals.
