INVITED SPEAKER

Professor Mark Walker

1987, PhD in Microbiology, UQ

1988-1991, Post-doc, National Research Centre for Biotechnology, Braunschweig, Germany

1992-2009, School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong

1998, Alexander Von Humboldt fellowship

2005, Fulbright Senior Scholar fellowship

2010-present, UQ, currently a Group Leader in the UQ Institute for Molecular Bioscience

Prof. Walker's research focuses on the mechanism by which the group A streptococcus causes invasive diseases as well as the development of a vaccine.