Ben Dickerman
Research Officer
Life Sciences
Burnet Institute
Australia
Biography
After completing his Bachelor of Science degree in 2001 and Master of Science degree in 2003, Ben began working as a Research Assistant investigating transcriptional termination in Vaccinia virus. At the completion of this project, he resumed his studies concentrating on virology. Ben completed his PhD in Molecular Virology from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA in 2012. His thesis research investigated an unexpected developmental defect in mice lacking the protein PACT/RAX, a dsRNA binding protein previously expected to play a role in the innate antiviral immune response.
Research Interest
Ben’s research is focused on investigating the role of glycans in HIV infection, specifically in identifying novel carbohydrate inhibitors of virus entry that may be developed for clinical use
Publications
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Creek DJ, Chua HH, Cobbold SA, Nijagal B, Macrae JI, Dickerman BK, Gilson PR, Ralph SA, McConville MJ Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2016 Oct; 60(11):6650-6663
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Dickerman BK, Elsworth B, Cobbold SA, Nie CQ, McConville MJ, Crabb BS, Gilson PR Sci Rep. 2016 Nov; 6:37502
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Boyle MJ, Skidmore M, Dickerman B, Cooper L, Devlin A, Yates E, Horrocks P, Freeman C, Chai W, Beeson JG Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2017 Oct; 61(11): e00709-17
