Engaging with KOLs from government departments to international research teams and universities and managing each detection project.Managing, editing, and writing all communications, PR and media relations, social media and content across Oxford Nanoimaging (ONI) platforms Organising education programmes, online webinars, and workshops.Reviewing research and technologies, review processes, documentation and evaluations.

*Single molecule imaging, super-resolution microscopy researcher in Monash Discovery InstituteUNSW postdoctoral researcher working on HIV as well as Ebola, Hendra and Nipah virusesHIV infection depends on the safe passage of the viral genome to the nucleus. Strategies to manipulate viral gene delivery have two clinical applications: first for the development of new HIV treatments, and second for improving lentiviral vectors for gene therapy. A promising target for controlling viral gene delivery is HIV uncoating, a critical step in the virus life cycle in which the genome is released from the viral capsid. Our focus is to reveal how host cell components regulate HIV infection by interacting with the capsid and controlling the uncoating process.The West African Ebola virus epidemic (2013–2016) was the most widespread outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in history—causing major loss of life and socioeconomic disruption in the region, mainly in the countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The first cases were recorded in Guinea in December 2013; later, the disease spread to neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone, with minor outbreaks occurring elsewhere. It caused significant mortality, with the case fatality rate reported at slightly above 70%, while the rate among hospitalized patients was 57–59%. We aim to uncover the mechanism through which Ebola evades the immune system resulting in such fatality.Henipavirus, including Hendra and Nipah viruses, is a group of emerging bat-borne paramyxoviruses which were responsible for severe disease outbreaks in humans, horses and pigs. The mortality rate of human infection varies between 50 and 100%, making them one of the most deadly viruses known to infect humans. We aim to understand the working of these viruses before an epidemic occurs

With the support of Prof. Katharina Gaus, Dr Yann Gambin, Dr Emma Sierecki and Dr Senthil Arumugam in UNSW, Australia and Prof. Ed Lavelle in TCD, Ireland, I founded the Single Molecule Science (SMS) internship program. I wanted to open up the opportunities available overseas for Irish students to gain experience in Australian laboratories and build collaborations between these two great universities in the field of Single Molecule Science. This June (2017) 10 Irish Trinity College Science students were selected and funded to partake in this program centred in the Lowy Cancer Institute, EMBL node in the University of New South Wales (UNSW). In September, 7 students will be selected to partake in a 6 month version of the internship placements. Applications will then be accepted each year for the 3 and 6 month internships with suitable candidates being chosen to continue on their research as PhDs.For more information on the program please email me on : a.ocarroll@unsw.edu.au

The New Wave aims to address the gender gap in entrepreneurship on campus and in society more broadly, by encouraging more female students into the technology-based startup economy. This initiative has three core components. Firstly, the New Wave Speaker Series, where a panel of UNSW female entrepreneurs/alumni entrepreneurs, female entrepreneurship and leadership advocates and established female entrepreneurs will be invited to speak about topics specifically tailored for university female students, in order to give them insights and guidance on being a female entrepreneur. These topics include leadership and negotiation. Secondly, The New Wave Startup Program, a competition to launch more female led startups / businesses at UNSW and finally, the UNSW Female Entrepreneurship Network Facebook group, a place where students can connect with each other and mentors as well as find helpful resources to assist their journey as a female entrepreneur. There have been over 120 members who joined the Facebook group since its launch in mid-May.https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/students/catching-new-wavehttp://geteducation.com.au/catching-new-wave/

The SEAMS executive committee was set up by myself and Mehdi Moustaqil (PhD) to act as a formal postgraduate student representative body at a number of institutional meetings. SEAMS is a means for the postgrad students to have input into the running of the graduate program and other initiatives that impinge on student issues. The organisation also aims to make the postgraduate student experience at the Lowy Cancer Building level 3 the best it can be, both socially and professionally. The project has been a great success with members reaching 30 this year and continuing to grow. Follow on https://sms.unsw.edu.au/news/fun-students-sms , https://sms.unsw.edu.au/news/students-lakeside-bonding

Consulting with and establishing the prion deactivation efficacy of industry enzymatic detergents.- Testing the resistance of prion strains (synuclein, ABeta, SOD1, Tau involved in widespread neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, ALS and Taupathies) when bound to surgical steel wires against clinically relevant medical instrument reprocessing protocols, with and without the companies detergent(s).- Developing an amplification assay based on single-molecule detection to measure log-6 decontamination from prion proteins left on surgical steel wires.Development of Listeria monocytogenes detection assay-There is a pressing need for a low cost, quick, high accuracy and specificity assay for the detection of bacterial pathogens in food and on environmental surfaces. The recent example of Listeria contamination in rockmelons not only put customers at risk (6 deaths in NSW), but also affected Australia’s image of one of the safest food producers in the world. Listeria has a slow incubation period and fast detection methods are required to identify the source of outbreaks- such as the latest Listeria outbreak linked to a meat-production plant in South-Africa

Project description: To uncover the emerging role of Prion - like protein polymerisation underlying signal transduction in innate immunity

Project description: To examine all the assumptions the field has made about NLR activation during inflammasome assembly

First Class Honours degree receivedDissertation project: Completed lab based research in Andrew Bowie’s lab: into determining the effect of DNA length and oxidation status on cytosolic DNA sensing pathways in a range of relevant cell types, with a view to defining the optimal DNA ligand for IFN I induction in each cell, as part of a final year project entitled “The Role of DNA length and oxidative status in innate immune cytosolic DNA sensing”. Received First Class Honour for dissertation. Skills utilised:Microscopy: phase contrast and fluorescence.Cell culture (primary and immortalised cell lines).Isolation of leukocytes subsets and endothelial cells. Immunofluorescence and immunocytochemistry.Flow cytometry.Subcellular fractionation. Western blotting.Extensive experience of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Laboratory technician assistant in Large Molecule Laboratories and Microbiology Biotech Operations -Worked independently on assigned projects. Developed technical writing skills for industry purposes, along with presentation and communication skills -Developed problem solving, communication, negotiating and team skills

-Laboratory assistant