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