Jane Hawkey
Dr Jane Hawkey is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow in the Department of Infectious Diseases, where she co-leads the Translational Microbial Genomics Program. As a computational microbiologist, her research uses genomics to understand the evolution, resistance mechanisms, and transmission pathways of high-priority bacterial pathogens. She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne and with a focus on mobile genetic elements and antimicrobial resistance.
She has developed several tools for the surveillance of enteric pathogens, having developed genotyping tools for Shigella, Salmonella Typhi, and Salmonella Paratyphi B. Her work on Shigella has been utilised globally for tracking emergence of multidrug-resistant lineages, and providing the research and public health communities with methods required to track Shigella across borders and improve communication between labs. Currently, she is the lead bioinformatician for the global AMRrules consortium, which aims to establish international standards for interpreting genotypic antimicrobial resistance in an organism-specific framework.
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