My scientific career began with a BSc in microbiology/molecular cellular biology, followed by a Honours degree in microbiology working on immuno-evasion and viral infections.I continued to work at CICR/DICIMM with a PhD in virology in Nigel Mcmillans laboratory studying the IFN evasion of chicken pox virus/VZV. Since then I have continued my research focusing on innate immunity and its cross-talk with cellular biology in Bryan Williams laboratory at MIMR / Monash University and now am pursuing further research at Duke-NUS Graduate medical school, singapore under Prof. Linfa Wang on the innate immunity/inflammation/cell biology cross-talk of the bat immune system. Innate immunity, viral infections, herpes virus, VZV, chicken pox, immunology, inflammation, inflammasome, RNA viruses, DenV, RSV, MuV, NBV, IAV, SFV, microscopy, molecular biology, cell biology, Live cell microscopy, confocal, live cell confocal, fluorescence, deconvolution microscopy, FRET, FRAP, FLIM, BiFC, bats, pteropid