Position

Professor of Molecular Biology

Department of Medical and Molecular Biosciences AND
Institute for the Biotechnology of Infectious Diseases (IBID)
University of Technology Sydney
Level 5, Building 4, Thomas and Harris Street, Ultimo Sydney, NSW 2007

Email: John.Ellis@uts.edu.au
http://www.science.uts.edu.au/health/ellis.html

Research interests

I am interested in many areas of veterinary and medical parasitology, mainly protozoa. I concentrate on projects that are applied and practical such as development and validation of new diagnostic tests for medically important parasites such as Dientamoeba fragilis and vaccines for Neospora caninum.

Qualifications

PhD (Liverpool) 1987
DSc (Liverpool) 2006

Currently Held Grants

ARC Linkage (2007-2009) Diagnosis of gastrointestinal parasites (with St. Vincent's Hospital Sydney)