Professor Dena Lyras is the Deputy Director of the Biomedicine Discovery Institute at Monash University. Her laboratory is focussed on enteric pathogens, particularly the clostridia and those involved in antibiotic-associated diarrhoea in humans and animals, and they use genetic approaches to understand how these microbes harness regulatory and virulence factors to interact with the host and cause disease. Antibiotic resistance and DNA mobility are also research areas of focus, in the context of gut pathogens and antibiotic-associated diarrhoeal disease. In collaboration with industry and academic partners, her laboratory is developing immunotherapeutics and small molecules to prevent and treat these infections. She was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship from 2012-2016 and began an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship in 2022.