Dr Joshua Hayward

Senior Research Officer
Centre for Biomedical Research
Burnet Institute

joshua.hayward@burnet.edu.au

Research Activities

Dr. Hayward is a molecular virologist and computational biologist working within the Retroviral Biology and Antivirals research laboratory (RBA). His research involves the identification and characterisation of novel retroviruses in Australian mammals such as bats, and the immunological interface between bats and viruses. He is also involved in research focussed on the microbiome within the female reproductive tract and the metabolites that they produce, with respect to their impact on sexually transmitted infections. Dr. Hayward is a lecturer in molecular virology at Monash University and post-graduate supervisor of PhD and Honours students within the RBA.

Techniques/Expertise

Bioinformatics/Computational biology, Molecular biology, Microbiology, Virology, Innate Immunology