Department of Biochemistry
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, 3800
Phone: +61 (3) 9905 9776 Fax: +61 (3) 9905 4811
Email: Jennifer.parsons@med.monash.edu.au
Jennifer Parsons is a research assistant working on Pasteurella multocida, which is the causative agent of fowl cholera in chickens, haemorrhagic septicaemia in cattle and atrophic rhinitis in pigs. Specifically, Jennifer is working to develop methods for the routine isolation of stable site-directed mutants of P. multocida for use in the study of virulence factors, including the study of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) which is of particular interest within the Adler-Boyce group.
Jennifer is also in the final stages of completing a PhD within the centre, under the supervision of Professor Julian Rood, Dr Trudi Bannam and Professor Rod Devenish. Her PhD project investigated the mechanism of transfer of the Clostridium perfringens conjugative plasmid pCW3.