About Alistair

I’m a lecturer in Veterinary Microbiology and Public Health, currently working at:
the Asia Pacific Centre for Animal Health at the University of Melbourne.

My research interests include:

  • Pathogen surveillance in wildlife
    • Chlamydia, particularly in koalas
    • Koala retrovirus
    • Antimicrobial resistance carriage by wildlife
    • Pathogens in wild birds
  • Genomics
    • Pathogens of agricultural significance
      • Infectious Laryngotracheitis Virus in poultry
      • Mycoplasma bovis in cattle
  • Phylogenetics
  • Next generation sequencing
    • Nanopore sequencing environmental samples
    • Illumina sequencing for genome assembly
    • 16S rRNA (Microbiome)
  • Vaccine Development
    • Infectious Laryngotracheitis Virus in poultry
  • Computational biology
    • Bash scripting for pipelines
    • Analysis using R
    • Shiny apps
    • Python tools for bioinformatics