Department of Microbiology
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, 3800
Phone: +61 (3) 9905 4808 Fax: +61 (3) 9905 4811
Email: Xiao.Han@med.monash.edu.au
Dr Xiaoyan Han is working on the pathogenesis of the ovine footrot pathogen, Dichelobacter nodosus in Chief Investigator’s Professor Julian Rood’s laboratory. The objectives of her studies are to identify genes involved in type IV fimbrial biogenesis and function in D. nodosus, to develop an understanding of the molecular mechanisms by which type IV fimbrial biogenesis, natural transformation, and protease secretion are linked, and to investigate the role of carboxyl-terminal extensions of proteases in secretion and function. Two major approaches, genetic analysis and protein complex studies, are being applied to elucidate these issues.
Dr Xiaoyan Han received her M. S. and B. S. degrees at Inner Mongolia University, China. After completing her Masters degree, she worked for 5 years as a lecturer in the same institution teaching Biochemistry. Before coming to Monash University, she worked for 12 months as a visiting scientist at Centre for Animal Biotechnology in the Veterinary School of the University of Melbourne. She joined Professor Julian Rood’s laboratory as a PhD student in 2002, successfully completed her studies in 2007 and published three significant papers on D. nodosus. In 2007 she took up a postdoctoral position with the ARC Centre of Excellence.