Dr Auriol Purdie

Post Doctoral Fellow
Farm Animal & Veterinary Public Health
Faculty of Veterinary Science
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The University of Sydney, NSW 2570 Australia
Camden - Shute Building
425 Werombi Road, Camden 2570

Qualifications

1999 BSc (Hons. Molecular Genetics)
2000 MSc (Immunology of Infectious Disease)
2004 PhD (Medicine & Therapeutics)

Career History

2004 - 2008 The Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, UK
2009 - present University of Sydney

Research Interests

Auriol holds a Bachelor of Science in Molecular Genetics from Kings College, London (UK), a Masters degree in the Immunology of Infectious Disease from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK) and a Doctorate of Philosophy looking at the immunomodulatory effects of the antibiotics Ciprofloxacin and Moxifloxacin on healthy humans. The PhD was granted from the University of Aberdeen (UK). Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Sydney, Auriol completed two Post Doctoral Fellowships at The Roslin Institute (Edinburgh, UK).

The first looked at the pathogenesis of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in bovine and murine models and the second Fellowship studied the potential to utilise gene transduction to obtain proteins of medical interest from a chicken model. Auriol’s research interest pertains to the pathogenesis of disease in host organisms with particular reference to the immune response and she is working within the Johne’s research team.