Barbara Coulson
Microbiology and Immunology
Doherty Institute
Australia
Biography
University of Melbourne Associate Professor Barbara Coulson researches the mechanisms underlying the rotavirus disease process, and how virus infection may accelerate the development of type 1 diabetes. She is a world-leader in rotavirus research. She completed her PhD supervised by Ian Holmes, and her early postdoctoral research in collaboration with Ruth Bishop, the co-discoverers of human rotaviruses. She has been an National Health and Medical Research Council Research (NHMRC) Fellow since 1991, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Virology.
Research Interest
Enteric infections
