About
Growing up on a farm in southern Australia I wanted to fix all the animals and that (eventually) led to becoming a Veterinary Surgeon. My first job in a rural practice in SE QLD was a truly mixed practice with everything from cows to wildlife, and a crash course in tropical medicine. After a stint in locumming in the UK during the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak, I decided practice wasn't for me and was extremely lucky to land up at the University of QLD doing a PhD on koala retrovirus (which really was for me). I never went back to practice staying in research working on koala retrovirus along with a huge variety of other viral diseases. Currently this includes retroviruses in sheep, hantaviruses in wild rodents, tick borne diseases in Nigerian dogs and viruses that are involved in multiple sclerosis in people. I've also taught hundreds of vet students animal handling, internal medicine and surgery at Nottingham where I've been for the last 10 years as part of our "One Virology" research group.
Joined
May 2019
