The University of Western Australia

Dr Megan Lloyd

Research Associate
School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Contact details

Address

School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
The University of Western Australia (M504)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

9346 2510 / 9346 2509

Fax

9346 2912

Email

megan.lloyd@uwa.edu.au

Location

Room 2.03, L Block, QEII Medical Centre

Biography

Dr Megan Lloyd completed a Bachelor of Applied Science at RMIT in Victoria in 1991. She then worked in Rickettsia research with Dr Brain Dwyer and Dr Rob Baird at Fairfield Hospital and was employed as a clinical scientist at the Katherine Hospital in the Northern Territory. Dr Lloyd first came to The University of Western Australia in 1995 and completed her PhD on reproductive immunology in 2007. She is now working as a Research Associate in Professor Geoff Shellam's Research Group.

Key research

Dr Lloyd is currently researching congenital cytomegalovirus and is interested in reproductive immunology.

Publications

S. O’Leary, M. Lloyd, S. Robertson, G. Shellam. (2008) Immunisation with recombinant murine cytomegalovirus expressing murine zona pellucida 3 causes ovarian pathology leading to permanent infertility in BALB/c mice. Biology of Reproduction, 79: 849 - 860.

S. Gorman, M.L. Lloyd, L.M. Smith, AR McWhorter, M.A. Lawson, A.J. Redwood, G.R. Shellam. (2008) Prior infection with murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) limits the immunocontraceptive effects of an MCMV vector expressing the mouse zona-pellucida-3 protein. Vaccine. 26(31):3860-9.

A.J. Redwood, L.M. Smith, M. Lloyd, L. A. Hinds, C. M. Hardy, G. R Shellam. (2007) Prospects for virally vectored immunocontraception in the control of wild mouse mice (Mus domesticus) Wildlife Diseases. 34(7): 530-9.

M.L. Lloyd, S. Nikolovski, M.A. Lawson, G.R. Shellam (2007). Innate antiviral resistance influences the efficacy of a recombinant murine cytomegalovirus immunocontraceptive vaccine. Vaccine, 25(4): 679-690.

A.J. Redwood, N.L. Harvey, M. Lloyd, M.A. Lawson, C.M. Hardy, G. R. Shellam (2007). Viral vectored immunocontraception: Screening of multiple fertility antigens using murine cytomegalovirus as a vaccine vector. Vaccine, 25(4): 698-708.

C.M. Hardy, L.A.Hinds, P.J. Kerr, M.L. Lloyd, A.J. Redwood, G.R. Shellam, T. Strive (2006). Biological control of vertebrate pests using virally vectored immunocontraception. Journal of Reproductive Immunology, 71(2): 102-111.

S. Gorman, N.L. Harvey, D. Moro, M.L. Lloyd, V. Voigt, L.M. Smith, M.A. Lawson, G.R. Shellam (2006). Mixed infection with multiple strains of murine cytomegalovirus occurs following simultaneous or sequential infection of immunocompetent mice. Journal of General Virology, 87: 1123-1132.

L. Smith, M.L. Lloyd, N.L. Harvey, A.J. Redwood, M.A. Lawson, G.R. Shellam (2005). Species-specificity of a murine immunocontraceptive utilising murine cytomegalovirus as a gene delivery vector. Vaccine, 23: 2959-2969.

C.M. Hardy, G. Clydesdale, K.J. Mobbs, J. Perkin, M.L. Lloyd, C. Sweet, G. Shellam, M.A. Lawson. (2004) Assessment of contraceptive vaccines based on recombinant mouse sperm protein PH20. Reproduction, 127(3), 325-334.

M.L. Lloyd, G.R. Shellam, J.M. Papadimitriou, M.A. Lawson. (2003) Immunocontraception is induced in BALB/c mice inoculated with murine cytomegalovirus expressing mouse zona pellucida 3. Biology of Reproduction, 68(60, 2024-2032.

D. Moro, M.L. Lloyd, A.L. Smith, G.R. Shellam, M.A. Lawson. (1999) Murine viruses in an island population of introduced house mice and endemic short-tailed mice in Western Australia. Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 35(2), 301-310.).

R.W. Baird, J. Stenos, R. Steward, B. Hudson, M. Lloyd, S. Aiuto and B. Dwyer. (1996) Genetic variation in Australian spotted fever group rickettsiae. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 34(60): 1526-1530.

R.W. Baird, M. Lloyd, J. Stenos, B.C. Ross, R.S. Stewart and B. Dwyer. (1992) Characterisation and comparison o Australian human spotted fever group rickettsiae. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 30(11) 2896-2902.

Memberships

Australia Society for Immunology
International Society for Immunology of Reproduction

Honours and awards

2009 Raine Priming Grant, Raine Medical Research Foundation
2008 New Investigator Award at the Combined Biological Sciences Meeting
2005 Murdoch Award for the ASMR Research Symposium

Current projects

Collaborators

Prof Geoff Shellam, Microbiology, UWA
Dr Lee Smith, Microbiology, UWA
Dr Alec Redwood, Microbiology, UWA
Dr Sarah Robinson, Adelaide University
Dr Sean O'Leary, Adelaide University

Research profile

Research profile and publications