Head of Discipline, Biological Sciences | The University of Newcastle

A/Prof Karl Hassan is the Chair of the BacPath 2024 local organising committee and Chair of the ASM NSW/ACT Branch committee. Karl has a B. Biotech (Hons) from the University of Wollongong and PhD in Microbiology from the University of Sydney. Karl held research fellowships at Macquarie University (ARC APD), the University of Leeds (MSC Fellow) and the University of Newcastle (ARC Future Fellow). Karl’s research broadly examines mechanisms of small molecule transport in bacteria and bacterial global regulatory networks to address major challenges in health, the environment and agriculture.

Senior Lecturer | University of New South Wales

ARC Future Fellow | School of Natural Sciences | Macquarie University

A/Prof Amy Cain gained her BSc (Hons) and PhD in Microbiology from the University of Sydney. She then worked in Cambridge (UK) at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, developing bespoke genomics techniques to examine antibiotic resistance, and Malawi, tracking hospital-acquired infections at the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Clinical Research Program. Next, she joined the Vertex Pharmaceuticals, working between Oxford (UK) and Boston (USA) learning drug discovery. Finally in 2018, Amy moved back to Australia as an ARC DECRA Fellow to establish her own group at Macquarie University. Currently Amy is an ARC Future Fellow, and Associate Professor at the School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University.

Senior Lecturer | The University of Sydney

Dr Matt Doyle is a bacteriologist / biochemist who completed his PhD at the Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, The University of Adelaide. Dr Doyle then worked in the USA as a National Institutes of Health Fellow conducting fundamental research to understand Gram-negative outer membrane biogenesis and to develop novel surface targeting antibiotics. In 2022, Dr Doyle took on a role as a Senior Lecturer at The University of Sydney. He has established the laboratory of Bacterial Outer Membrane Biogenesis which is currently supported by an NIH grant to develop novel whooping cough inhibitors.

Professor | Western Sydney University

Professor | University of Wollongong

Professor | University of Technology Sydney, Associate Dean Teaching and Learning