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Associate Professor Kalinna is a Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Animal Biotechnology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Melbourne. Bernd studied Biology and Parasitology at Philipps University Marburg (Germany) and completed his PhD in 1990. He then came to Australia and did his post doctoral research at the Queensland Institute for Medical

Research in Brisbane working on vaccine development for schistosomiasis japonica. In 1997 he returned to Germany to take up a faculty position at Humboldt University Berlin. Here he started his work on schistosome transgenesis and developed techniques for the transfection of Schistosoma mansoni using transposons and retroviruses.

In 2005 he returned to Australia and is now based at The University of Melbourne. With the recent completion of the S. mansoni genome project and emerging abundance of molecular information, his group is now focused on functional genomics in schistosomes to discover novel genes and biochemical pathways involved in growth, reproduction and survival of the parasite as potential targets for drug and vaccine development.

Bernd is also Deputy Editor of Experimental Parasitology, one of the leading parasitology journals.

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