Ghizal Siddiqui joins us from the Microbiology department of Monash University where she recently completed her PhD with Brian Cooke, investigating protein kinases in Plasmodium falciparum. Ghizal will implement proteomics techniques in our lab to add an extra layer of information to ongoing metabolomics investigations of drug action and metabolic regulation in protozoan pathogens.

Anubhav Srivastava comes to Melbourne from the Wellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology at Glasgow University. Anubhav recently completed his PhD with Andy Waters, using metabolomics and molecular approaches to investigate metabolism in several stages of Plasmodium berghei. Anubhav will initiate the T. brucei culture in our lab and lead the metabolism and drug discovery projects for trypanosomatids.