Jason Roberts
Microbiology and Immunology
Doherty Institute
Australia
Biography
Dr Jason Roberts is a Senior Medical Scientist and Deputy Head of the National Enterovirus Reference Laboratory at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL), which is also a World Health Organization Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio. Jason focuses on improving laboratory surveillance for enteroviruses associated with neurological infections and is passionate about producing computer models that are an accurate depiction of virus structure. Jason completed a PhD in bioinformatics and computational biophysics for enterovirus reference and research and is an Adjunct Principal Research Fellow at RMIT University.
Research Interest
Emerging Infections, Enteric infections