EM/ProfJohn Ellis

Emeritus Professor

School of Life Sciences

TEACHING AND SUPERVISION

John Ellis was the subject coordinator for the third year subject Molecular Biology 2 (91335). This subject is an introduction to eukaryotic gene structure and expression, as well as the study of genomes and their sequence content.

He was also the subject coordinator of the subject Parasitology (91352). This subject introduces the discipline as a clinical subject, and covers the diverse areas of medical and veterinary parasitology.

He also supervises postgraduate research students in his research areas. His present research students are:

Rory Gough and Luke Hall are studying genes of Dientamoeba fragilis in collaboration with Dr Damien Stark (St. Vincent's Hospital).

Patricia Zajackowski, is studying the epidemiology of Cryptosporidiosis and Giardiasis in collaboration with Dr Damien Stark (St. Vincent's Hospital) and Dr Rogan Lee (ICPMR, Westmead Hospital).

Ineka Gow, is studying leishmaniasis diagnostics with Dr Damien Stark (St. Vincent's Hospital).

Louis De Couvreur, is studying the application of machine learning to parasitology in collaboration with Prof Paul Kennedy (UTS School of Software).