Research Related Experience
October 2016 - Feb 2018
Senior Scientist at Janssen Prevention Center, London, United Kingdom
July 2015 - Sept 2016
Scientist at Janssen Prevention Center, Leiden, Netherlands and London, United Kingdom.
March 2014 - Feb 2015
Post-doctoral research associate at University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Research project: Investigating the impact of gut microbiota on the intestinal epigenome during health and disease (mentor: Dr Matthias Zilbauer)
June 2014 - Dec 2014
Visiting scientist at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, United Kingdom
Research project: Gut microbiota profiling in inflammatory bowel diseases patient cohort (mentor: Dr Trevor Lawley)
May 2013 - Aug 2013
Visiting scientist at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Research project: Investigation of the role of Propionibacterium acnes in sarcoidosis (mentor: Prof. Gabriel Nuñez)
Awarded travelling fellowship from The Company of Biologists, UK
May 2012 – May 2013
Post-doctoral fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark
Research project: Comparison genomics of human associated Propionibacteria (mentor: Prof. Holger Brüggemann)
July 2011 - Sept 2011
Visiting scientist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
Research project: Identification of bacteria from prostate biopsies (Supervisors: A. Prof. Karen Sfanos and Prof. Angelo De Marzo)
Nov 2005 – Feb 2006
Summer research scholar at Australian National University, Canberra.
Research project: Cloning and protein expression of nematode specific genes in Caenorhabditis elegans (mentor: Dr Aaron Oakley)
Education
July 2008 – Feb 2012
PhD student at Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany
Thesis title: Host modulating properties of Propionibacterium acnes (PhD supervisors: Prof. Holger Brüggemann & Prof. Thomas Meyer)
July 2003 – Oct 2007
BSc. (First Class Honours) Biotechnology from Monash University Malaysia & Australia
Thesis title: Cloning and expression of Fibroblast Activating Factor from Porphyromonas gingivalis (Thesis supervisor: A. Prof. Song Keang Peng)