WEHI Postgraduate Seminar hosted by the Scientific Education Committee

Professor Kelly Rogers

Division Head – Advanced Technology and Biology division, WEHI

Microscopy driven discoveries of mankind’s most infectious organisms

Davis Auditorium

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Including Q&A session

Professor Kelly Rogers is Head of the Advanced Technology and Biology Division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) in Melbourne, Australia. After completing a PhD at Griffith University, she undertook postdoctoral training at the Institut Pasteur in Paris before joining their Plate-forme D’Imagerie Dynamique, an internationally recognised advanced microscopy facility at that time. 

Inspired by a number of pioneering scientists who were redefining how we study biological systems, she returned to Australia and founded WEHI’s Centre for Dynamic Imaging (CDI). In 2017, Professor Rogers was appointed a laboratory head, which has given her greater scope to leverage cutting-edge imaging technologies to tackle some of the most pressing questions in biomedical research today. 

One of the achievements of her team has been to build a lattice light sheet microscope which was instrumental in the discovery of mitochondrial DNA release during apoptosis. Her team also used this approach to obtain 4D volumetric measurements of how the malaria parasite invades the human erythrocyte, which has provided valuable insights into the role of the host cell during parasite-host cell interactions and invasion. By bridging technical innovation and discovery, her team strives for unprecedented molecular and cellular insights.

All welcome!