Biography
Dena is the Deputy Director of the Biomedicine Discovery Institute and the Deputy Head of the Department of Microbiology. She was awarded her PhD in 1995, investigating the genetic and molecular determinants of three phenotypes associated with the TraB region of plasmid RP. Her postdoctoral research focused on the pathogenesis of bacteria and in 2010 she established her independent research laboratory at Monash University. Dena was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship in 2012 and was promoted to Associate Professor, to investigate molecular aspects of hypervirulence and the infectious cycle in Clostridium difficile. She leads the Functional Biology of Bacterial Pathogens Laboratory in the Biomedicine Discovery Institute. In 2020, Dena joined the Centre to Impact AMR as a founding member.
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