Melissa Churchill

Professor Melissa Churchill is a Professor in the Department of Health and Biomedical Sciences at RMIT University, located at the Bundoora West campus. Her research focuses on HIV/SIV reactivation in the brain, transcriptional regulation of HIV in the CNS during viral suppression, and immune responses in gestational influenza infections. She supervises PhD/Masters students on topics like HIV reservoir characterization in subtype AE infections and mechanisms driving HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders.

• ORCID: 0000-0001-5510-7954
• Open to student supervision in virology, immunology, and neurobiology.

Her research interests span microbiology, clinical sciences, and neurosciences with a focus on viral pathogenesis and host immune interactions. Recent projects include elucidating HIV reservoir maintenance and maternal-fetal disease mechanisms during influenza.