About
Associate Professor Norelle Sherry is a medical microbiologist and infectious diseases physician at the University of Melbourne. She serves as Deputy Director of the Microbiological Diagnostic Unit (MDU) Public Health Laboratory and co-leads the WHO Collaborating Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance and the Doherty Antimicrobial Resistance Theme. Her research focuses on antimicrobial resistance, genomic implementation, and public health microbiology within the Howden Lab Group.
- Position: Deputy Director, MDU Public Health Laboratory
- Key Themes: Antimicrobial Resistance, Computational Science & Genomics, Public Health
- Units: University of Melbourne, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Her work includes paradigm-shifting studies on genomic infection control (e.g., 'Controlling Superbugs' projects) and development of workflows for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and tuberculosis AMR diagnostics. She contributes to national and international COVID-19 genomics through the Communicable Diseases Genomics Network (CDGN) and its Variants of Concern Working Group.
