The University of Western Australia
Dr Alec Redwood
Research Fellow
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Contact details
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- Address
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
The University of Western Australia (M504)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia
- Phone
- 9346 2512
- Fax
- 9346 4519
- alec.redwood@uwa.edu.au
- Location
- Room 2.04 and 2.02, L Block, QEII Medical Centre
- Qualifications
- BAppSci PhD Curtin
- Biography
- Dr Alec Redwood completed a Bachelor of Applied Science with Honours and a PhD researching cytokine responses to fungal infections at Curtin University. He then worked as a Research Assistant for Dr Bruce Robinson in the Department of Medicine before being awarded a Fellowship with the School of Oral Health Sciences at UWA. Dr Redwood became involved in the Pest Animal Control Cooperative Research Centre researching the use of murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) as a vaccine vector for virally vectored immunocontraception. Since 2005 he has been studying various aspects of the fundamental biology of MCMV.
- Key research
- Dr Redwood is interested in understanding the interactions between viruses and their hosts, especially how viral genetics control their responses to the host, and how host genetics control their response to the virus. He is currently researching MCMV a common a herpesvirus found in mice that is used as a model for the human equivalent virus. Because most hosts are infected with multiple strains of MCMV Dr Redwood is studying how these strains associate with each other and how this association affects viral pathogenesis.
- Publications
- http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-6138-2008
- Roles, responsibilities and expertise
- Dr Redwood is the coordinating supervisor of 3 PhD students and the co-supervisor of another 1 PhD student.
- Funding received
- NH&MRC
- Memberships
- WA state Councilor for the Australasian Society of Immunology
American Society of Microbiology - Teaching
- Dr Redwood lectures on viral immune evasion in the Masters of Infectious Diseases unit. He also supervises Visnja Madic (PhD), Jackie Robb and Baca Chan (PhD).
- Research profile
- Research profile and publications