School of Biological Sciences PhD Program
University of Wollongong, Australia
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Andrew Hollands School of Biological Sciences PhD Program University of Wollongong, Australia |
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Andrew Hollands grew up in
Sydney, Australia. He completed his undergraduate degree in
Biological Sciences at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
In the final year of his undergraduate degree, Andrew conducted an
honors research project on group A streptococcal fibronectin binding
proteins. Andrew commenced his PhD in Australia before conducting
research in Germany and then America. Andrew's principal research supervisor is Prof. Mark Walker, and he is undertaking two years of his doctoral research here in San Diego in conjunction with an ongoing multinational collaboration between our laboratories and those of Prof. Malak Kotb in Memphis, Tennessee and Prof. G. Singh Chhatwal in Braunschweig, Germany. |
| Andrew's research focuses on the role of group A streptococcal (GAS) proteases (and in particular the cysteine proteease SpeB) in shaping the expression pattern of virulence factors on the bacterial surface and the molecular events surrounding the switch from localized to invasive GAS infection. He is also investigating the host response to GAS local infection using microarray technology and other molecular techniques. | |