Willa Huston
Assistant Professor
Parasites, Microbes and Host Immunity
University of Technology Sydney
Australia
Biography
Molecular Microbiologist (PhD awarded 2004) with an interest in Chlamydia and chlamydial diseases. My work has mainly focussed on understanding the chlamydial mechanisms of disease, persistence, and how the disease causes infertility in women. I am also interested in the role proteases have in pathogenesis and biology. I have strong expertise in intracellular infection models and human disease models. My team has research projects on-going in chlamydial biology, human disease pathogeneis, diagnosis and treatment, pelvic inflammatoty disease, and Koala Chlamydia treatment. We welcome enquiries from interested students or collaborators.
Research Interest
understanding how chlamydial causes infertility in women and how this intracellular bacterial pathogen interacts with human cells. We are also interested in pelvic inflammatory disease. We are focussed on understanding the bacterial pathogenic factors in order to develop future improved diagnostics and therapeutics for humans. We are also interested in chlamydia and Koalas and the development of new drugs to treat this devastating disease.
