Elizabeth Hartland

Biography

  Professor Elizabeth Hartland obtained her Bachelor of Science (Honours) majoring in microbiology and biochemistry, and subsequently her PhD in microbiology from the University of Melbourne. She has held a Royal Society/National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Howard Florey Fellowship in the Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College, London, UK and Lecturer/Senior Lecturer positions in the Department of Microbiology, Monash University. She was an inaugural Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Melbourne and is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne and a Deputy Director of the Doherty Institute. She has a long-standing research interest in the pathogenesis of infections caused by Escherichia coli and Legionella, with a focus on mechanisms of bacterial colonisation and immune evasion. 

Research Interest

    Enteric infections, Immunology