After working with bacterial biofilms as model to understand the evolution of enzymes in complex environments, it was hard to go back to domesticated bacteria. In my new lab we will continue to bridge between biofilms' biology and evolutionary biochemistry.

Identification of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) as the crucial regulator of inflammation in human lymphatic filariasis has provoked the conception of TLR-directed therapy against filariasis.

I recently swapped a career in biochemistry for one in the conservation of Nature, In this ‘After the Paper’ blog I summarise some of the background to my journey from the nanometre scale to the macro scale and some current goals and ambitions.

We have published and advocated phage therapy [1-7]. Here we describe our effort to build a national consortium aimed at delivering phage therapeutics, in an Australian context.

Two PhDs and several papers later

​Between the mid to late 1990’s, the development and introduction of combination antiretroviral therapy (c-ART) transformed the landscape of HIV care for those with access to treatment.