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Dr Deirdre Collins

Deirdre is an NHMRC Early Career Fellow working with Professor Thomas Riley's Clostridium difficile research group, based in the R&D laboratories of PathWest Laboratory Medicine, QEII Medical Centre.

Professional Associations

  • Australian Society for Microbiology
  • European Society for Clinical Microbiology Infectious Diseases

Awards and Recognition

National and International Awards

  • Australasian Epidemiological Association Early Career Researcher Travel Award, 2018

Other Awards

  • Vice-Chancellor's Staff Award 2018: Excellence in Research by Early Career Researcher
  • UWA Graduate Research School travel award, 2013
  • International Postgraduate Research Scholarship, UWA, 2012-2016
  • Australian Postgraduate Award, UWA, 2012-2016
  • Friends of the Institute travel award, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research (now Telethon Kids Institute), 2012
  • Highest aggregate mark overall in graduating Masters class, UWA, 2010
  • Highest mark for research project in graduating Masters class, UWA, 2010
  • Highest aggregate mark in specialist stream group in graduating Masters class, UWA, 2010
  • Trinity College Dublin Entrance Exhibition Award, 2003

Research Areas and Interests

  • Clostridium difficile infection
  • Infectious disease epidemiology
  • Molecular epidemiology
  • One Health
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