Professor Melissa Brown

Professor

College of Science and Engineering

+61 8 82012747

melissa.brown@flinders.edu.au

Biological Sciences (202)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Prof Brown completed her B.Sc. (Hons.) and her PhD. in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Adelaide University under the guidance of Prof Paul Manning and A/Prof Renato Morona. She undertook postdoctoral training with Prof Robert Hancock at the University of British Columbia in Canada for which she was awarded a Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. Prof Brown returned to Australia in 1993 to work with Prof Ronald Skurray at the University of Sydney. In 2007 she relocated her laboratory to Flinders University where she is currently Professor in Microbiology.

Qualifications

1992 - Ph.D. "Molecular characterisation of the rfb region of Vibrio cholerae O1 (Ogawa)" Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Adelaide
1984 - B.Sc. (Hons), "Molecular characterisation of the haemolysin determinant from V. cholerae" Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Adelaide
1983 - B.Sc., Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Adelaide

Honours, awards and grants

Fellow of the American Society of Microbiology (FAA)

Fellow of the Australian Society of Microbiology (FASM)

Bellberry Research Award 2009

Teaching interests

Prof Brown's teaching interests centre on Microbiology and the application of current molecular techniques.

Topic coordinator

BIOL3782 Advanced Microbiology: Microbial Ecology and Infectious Disease

SERC2700 Research Project 1

BIOL3761 Foundations in Microbiology

Topic lecturer

SERC3700 Research Project 2

BIOL3761 Foundations in Microbiology

SERC1012 Introduction to Research

BIOL1112 Biology and Society

BIOL3782 Advanced Microbiology:Microbial Ecology and Infectious Disease

SERC2700 Research Project 1

BIOL2722 Disease and Immunology

Professional engagement

Journal Editor/ Reviews
Senior Editor of the Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology
Reviewer for multiple scientific journals
Reviewer for granting agencies including; Australian Research Council (ARC), National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC), British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Israel Science Fund, New Zealand Health Council, United States National Science Foundation (NSF)

Professional Society Memberships/Committees

South Australian Branch of the Australian Society for Microbiology (Committee Member)

Adelaide Protein Group (Committee Member)

American Society for Microbiology (Member; FAA)

American Society for Microbiology (Ambassador to Australia)

Australian Society for Microbiology (Member; FASM)

Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Member)

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