Team – RIETIE VENTER ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE LAB

We are a multidisciplinary team of microbiologists, biochemists and bioinformaticians working together with the aim to combat antimicrobial resistance.

Assoc. Prof. Rietie Venter

Team Leader

My research passion is to understand antimicrobial resistance and to use this knowledge as a basis for antimicrobial drug discovery. I obtained my BSc(Hons) and Master’s degrees with distinction from the University of the Free State in South Africa before securing a scholarship to do a PhD in the UK. After completing my PhD at the University of Leeds, I moved to Cambridge, where I spent twelve years doing research on multidrug transporters, first as a post-doc and later running my own research group as a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow at the University of Cambridge. I joined the University of South Australia as Head of Microbiology in December 2012 where I am leading an internationally acclaimed research group on Antimicrobial Resistance.

Email me: rietie.venter@unisa.edu.au

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Dr. Sylvia Sapula

Research Associate

Molecular Microbiologist and Protein Biochemist. Working on understanding the development and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance in residential aged care facilities.

Email me: sylvia.sapula@unisa.edu.au

Dr. Anteneh Amsalu

Research Associate

BSc in Medical Laboratory Technology and Master’s degree in Medical Microbiology. Lecturer and researcher at University of Gondar, Ethiopia.

Ph.D. in Medical Science, University of South Australia. My research is aimed at understanding how resistance is acquired and is disseminated through healthcare as well as the environment. A particular focus is carbapenem resistant Gram-negative bacteria which are on the World Health Organization’s list of critically important pathogens.

Email me: anteneh_amsalu.geremew@mymail.unisa.edu.au