Associate Professor Brian Cooke Department of Microbiology Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800 Phone: +61 (3) 9905 4827 Fax: +61 (3) 9905 4811 Email: brian.cooke@med.monash.edu.au
		Associate Professor Brian Cooke is a National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Microbiology at Monash University. Over the last 20 years, Brian’s work has focussed on understanding the cellular and molecular basis by which parasites of red blood cells (particularly malaria and babesia) cause disease and death in humans and animals.
		His research group is internationally recognized as playing a vital role in a worldwide consortium toward the functional analysis of novel genes identified in the recently sequenced genomes of malaria and babesia parasites. Brian is an elected member of the International Advisory Editorial Boards for Trends in Parasitology and Blood – the top ranking discipline-specific journal in the field of parasitology and haematology.
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