OUR ESTEEMED LIST OF SPEAKERS
Professor Fiona Wood – AO, FRCS, FRACS
Opening Keynote Speaker
Fiona Wood has been a burns surgeon and researcher for over 30 years and is Director of the Burns Service of Western Australia (BSWA). She is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Fiona […]
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Dr Ainsley Davies
Invited and Workshop Speaker
Dr Ainsley Davies is currently a Senior Technical Officer at Canberra Clinical Phenomics Service (CCPS) at the Australian National University (ANU). She obtained her PhD from ANU in 2022 for research uncovering […]
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Dr Amy Prosser
Invited Speaker
Dr Amy Prosser is an early career postdoctoral fellow in the Immunology and Transplantation Laboratory of Professor Michaela Lucas at UWA. She completed her PhD in 2022 investigating the fate of tissue-resident […]
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Dr Florian Mair
Invited and Workshop Speaker
Florian is currently working as the Scientific Director of the Flow Cytometry Core Facility and Senior Scientist Immunology at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. After graduating with an MSc in Molecular Biology from the […]
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Vainav Patel
Invited and Workshop Speaker
Dr Vainav Patel is currently Scientist F and heads the Viral Immunopathogenesis Lab at ICMR-NIRRCH, Mumbai. He also has served as Nodal Officer of Covid19 team of the institute. He is also […]
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Professor Andrew Filby
Invited and Workshop Speaker
Professor Andrew Filby is the first UK-based technical specialist to be appointed as a Professor of Practice; a paradigm shift in how non-academic technical staff are recognised and rewarded for their contributions […]
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Paul K. Wallace, PhD
Invited and Workshop Speaker
Paul K. Wallace, PhD served from 2003-2021 as Director of the Flow and Image Cytometry Department at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, NY. He is currently a Professor Emeritus at […]
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Randall Grose
Invited Speaker
Randall Grose proudly serves as the newly appointed McMahon Services Family Fellow, leading the Adelaide Health and Biomedical Precinct Cytometry (AHBMPC) facility with a commitment to innovation, excellence, and research advancement. In […]
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Dr Kelly Vere MBE
Invited Speaker
Dr Kelly Vere MBE is the University Director of Technical Strategy at the University of Nottingham and a leading advocate for technical skills and careers in higher education and research. She began […]
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Professor Wendy Erber
Invited Speaker
Wendy Erber is a Consultant Haematologist, with a major interest in diagnostic haematology and translational research at The University of Western Australia. She has held consultant haematologist positions in Cambridge (UK) and […]
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Dr Allison McInnes
Invited and Workshop Speaker
Allison McInnes is the Senior flow cytometey scientist and manager of the Centre for Microbiome Research (CMR) flow cytometry facility. Throughout her career she has led the development and optimisation of novel […]
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Ailie Ross
Invited Speaker
Ailie Ross is an academic in the Biomedical Sciences group at JCU, specialising in advanced haematology. She has extensive experience in clinical diagnostic pathology, working in public and private laboratories over a […]
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Dr Kieran Mulroney
Invited and Workshop Speaker
Dr Kieran Mulroney is an early career researcher from the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and the University of Western, focused on the development of novel applications of flow cytometry for […]
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Felix Marsh-Wakefield
Invited and Workshop Speaker
Felix Marsh-Wakefield is a post-doctoral researcher part of the Liver Injury & Cancer Program (Centenary Institute) and Human Cancer & Viral Immunology Laboratory (University of Sydney). He is an immunologist interested in […]
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Dr Franklin Fuda
Invited and Workshop Speaker
Franklin “Buddy” Fuda is a Professor of Pathology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas. He graduated from Ohio University and completed his residency in Anatomic and Clinical […]
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Thomas O’Neil
Workshop Speaker
Thomas is currently a postdoc with the HIV & Mucosal Immunity lab at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research. Initially, his study involved characterising anogenital T cells by flow cytometry as targets […]
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Professor Michaela Lucas
Invited Speaker
Professor Michaela Lucas is a practising Immunologist/Allergist, Immunopathologist and Clinician-Scientist based in Perth, Western Australia. She works across two tertiary hospitals, with appointments at the adult Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, the Perth […]
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Associate Professor Elizabeth Tegg
Invited Speaker
Associate Professor Elizabeth Tegg is a dual trained pathologist in Haematology and Genetics. She is currently based at The Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, which is part of New South […]
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Dr Sharon Choo
Invited and Workshop Speaker
Dr Sharon Choo has been a paediatric immunologist and immunopathologist at The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) in Melbourne since 2007. She trained in paediatrics, allergy & immunology and immunopathology in Adelaide, Sheffield, […]
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Dr Haylea Power
Invited Speaker
Dr Haylea Power is a research scientist at CSIRO’s Environomics Future Science Platform, where she has spent the past seven years developing new tools to bring genomic resolution to environmental monitoring. Her […]
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Dr Paul Hutchinson
Invited and Workshop Speaker
Paul started his flow cytometry at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute in Melbourne in 1983. Here he did clinical and research flow cytometry before moving to Prince Henry’s Hospital to take charge […]
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Dr Kathy Fuller
Invited Speaker
Dr. Kathy Fuller is an Associate Professor of Translational Oncology at the University of Western Australia (UWA). Her research integrates flow cytometry, molecular biology, and clinical oncology to develop innovative tools for […]
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Professor Bartek Rajwa, PhD
Invited and Workshop Speaker
Bartek Rajwa is a Research Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Purdue University’s Bindley Bioscience Center. His research focuses on the application of mathematical modeling and statistical machine learning to complex […]
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Emily Hinds
Invited Speaker
Emily began her career in the Core Laboratory at the Royal Hobart Hospital in 2004. Here she built on her Biomedical Science degree by completing a Graduate Diploma of Pathology. She was […]
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Dr Christian Tjiam PhD
Invited and Workshop Speaker
Dr Christian Tjiam PhD is Scientist-In-Charge of Immunopathology at PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA (Fiona Stanley Hospital), Honorary Research Associate in Vaccine Immunology at The Kids Research Institute Australia (formerly Telethon Kids Institute) […]
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