Researcher biography

Dr Michelle Chamoun joined The Frazer Insitute in 2023 in A/Prof. Timothy Wells' lab and her research broadly encompasses Pseudomonas aeruginosa, antibody-dependant serum resistance, and inflammation. She completed her PhD in 2020 on the role of Interleukin-17 in E. coli chronic urinary tract infection in mice. Michelle left academia in 2020 to work in various industry roles in biotech and pathology with a focus on molecular diagnosis of viral pathogens. Since her return to academia, Michelle has secured a LINC grant to investigate E. coli in blood stream infection, is supervising two students, and has several publications in the pipeline.