Molecular Mycology Research Group

Funding & Collaborations

Funding bodies

• NHMRC, Australia
• CAPES, Brazil
• NEW South Wales Health Department, Australia
• University of Sydney, Australia
• Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity (MBI), Australia
• FIUR (Universidad del Rosario), Colombia
• FAPERJ, Brazil

Affiliations

• Professor of Molecular Medical Mycology, Sydney Medical School/Westmead Clinical School, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
• Senior Hospital Scientist Westmead Hospital, NSW, Australia
• Curator of the Australian Medical Fungal Collection (AMFC) , WMI, Sydney Medical School - Westmead Hospital, Center for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Sydney at Westmead Hospital, Sydney
• Guest Professor at Fondação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Collaborators

• MBI, Sydney, Australia: T. Sorrell – Emerging fungal infections
• CIDM-PH, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, Australia: V. Sintchenko – Fungal Infections relevant to Public Health
• Pathology-West, Westmead, Australia: A/Prof. S. Chen – Mycoses, Fungal Identification, Epidemiology and fungal infections and Cystic Fibrosis patients
• TGen, Arizona, USA: D. Engelthaler, P. Keim - Fungal Genomics
• Australian National University, Canberra, Australia: G Huttley - Fungal Genomics
• CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA: S Lockhart, M Brand, T Chiller - Molecular Epidemiology of human pathogenic fungi
• NIH, MA USA: J Kwon-Chung – Fungal Genetics
• Imperial College London, UK: M Fisher – Population genetics fungal genomics
• KNAW-CBS, Utrecht, The Netherlands: V Robert, S de Hoog, T. Boekhout – Bioinformatics taxonomy, phylogeny, molecular epidemiology, genomics of human pathogenic fungi, DANN bacoding
• Pasteur Institute Paris, France: JP Latge, F Dromer – Fungal genetics and molecular epidemiology, genomics of human pathogenic fungi
• Robert Koch Institute Berlin, Germany: K Tintelnot, V Rückert, A Bernhardt - molecular epidemiology of human pathogenic fungi
• University of Angers, Angers, France: JP Bouchara – Cystic fibrosis, genomics
• Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain: J Guarro, J Cano – Cystic fibrosis, DNA barcoding
• Duke University Medical Centre, NC, USA: J Heitman, J Perfect, T Mitchell – genomics, fungal genetics, molecular eoidemiology of human pathogenic fungi
• Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: M Lazera, B Wanke, L Trilles –molecular epidemiology of human pathogenic fungi
• Instituto National De Salud, Bogota, Colombia:
• E Castaneda – Molecular Epidemiology of human pathogenic fungi
• Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand:
• A Chindamporn – Molecular Epidemiology of human pathogenic fungi
• Universidad ode Chile, Santiago Chile: S Varga – nosocomial infections and Pneumocystis jirovecii
• Institute Pasteur de Lille, Lille, France: L Delhaes – Cystic fibrosis
• University of Aix-Marseille II, Marseille, France: S Rangue – MALDI-TOF