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I am a Professor of Virology and Immunology at the University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Medical Sciences. I am also the Deputy Director of the Centre for Virus Research at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research.I have been working at the Westhead Health Precinct since completing my PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2002. I have extensive collaborations with surgeons at Westmead and other Western Sydney Hospitals who provide my research group with a large range of human tissues with which we conducts all our research. I lead two research groups at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, in the Centre for Virus Research and Centre for Immunology and Allergy Research. These groups investigate sexual transmission of HIV and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, such as Crohn's Disease.My technological expertise lies in the ability to isolate functionally intact immune cells from human tissue and to visualise immune cells within these tissues. I am an expert in characterising human tissue immune cells using high parameter single cell technologies including flow cytometry, imaging mass cytometry and RNA sequencing. I also have access to clinically relevant HIV transmission strains derived from infected individuals in sub-Saharan Africa and have developed RNAscope technology to visualise these HIV strains interacting with target cells within 30 minutes of exposure.

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