Shortlisted for Faculty of Science PhD Graduate of the year award - Dr. Jennifer Hosmer

Jenni graduated from her PhD last year having done excellent work on how metabolic dependencies between Haemophilus influenzae and human epithelia affect bacterial virulence and human immune responses.

CONGRATULATIONS, JENNI

FoS award ceremony, Prof. Melissa Brown

Celebrating Riya’s confirmation as a PhD student

Microbiology in Moreton Bay - MiM 2025

We all had a great time at MiM2025 held at the beautiful USC Petrie Campus.

As part of the program Marufa presented her work on bacterial S-oxide reductases, while Riya was a finalist for the Nancy Millis Award and took out second place - congratulations,

& thanks to the ASM-Qld for organizing this great event

Marufa presenting

Marufa presenting her work

Nancy Millis Award finalists 2025 and Riya receiving her award

Happy holidays & all the best for 2025

Bacpath 2024 - Hunter Valley

Great to see both Saurab and Riya present the work from their PhDs at the Bacpath conference in the Hunter Valley.

Special congratulations to Riya for winning the ‘Best Student Presentation’ award!

2024 Lab Christmas event

2024 Lab Christmas event

Learning how to bake Croissants and prepare a brunch breakfast at Vanilla Zulu cooking class in Newstead