DrEmily Francis

Emily has supervised and co-supervised 12 undergraduate and postgraduate research students across a range of veterinary parasitology and infectious disease topics. Projects supervised include:

• Adina Van Rysewyk (AVBS Honours 2026) - Oh Deer! Do wild deer move anthelmintic-resistant parasites across shared pastures?
• Samantha MacFarlane (DVM3 Research and Enquiry 2026) – Comparative evaluation of two molecular diagnostic platforms for detection of enteric pathogens in cats and dogs in Sydney
• Maria Rudic (DVM3 Research and Enquiry 2026) – Cross-species comparison of the gastrointestinal nemabiome of sheep and wild deer in Gunning, New South Wales
• Charlotte Gorman (DVM3 Research and Enquiry 2026) - Establishing baseline molecular profiles of benzimidazole and levamisole resistance in livestock gastrointestinal nematodes across University of Sydney farms
• Olivia Kelly (AVBS Honours 2025) – Screening for drug resistance in Teladorsagia circumcincta and Trichostrongylus colubriformis in sheep across New South Wales
• Priscilla Huynh (AVBS Honours 2025) – “First frost, last frost” Updating current knowledge on the seasonality of Fasciola hepatica in NSW's Southern Tablelands
• Crystal Elliot (AVBS Honours 2024) – Deep amplicon sequencing for the detection of levamisole resistant SNPs in major sheep nematodes Teladorsagia circumcincta and Trichostrongylus colubriformis
• Analise McDonald (AVBS Honours 2023) – State-wide surveillance of levamisole resistant Haemonchus contortus in NSW sheep via deep amplicon sequencing of the S168T SNP
• Hing Wai (Chloe) Choi (AVBS Honours 2023) – Determining the equine nemabiome in Australia utilising ITS-2 deep amplicon sequencing
• Stella Ktenas (DVM3 Research and Enquiry 2023) - Comparison of Giardia duodenalis point-of-care antigen faecal tests to reference laboratory assays in non-symptomatic dogs
• Sally Williams (AVBS Honours 2022) – Exploring the gastrointestinal nemabiome of feral animals on a NSW farm: pigs and rabbits
• Elijah Hillhouse (AVBS Honours 2021) – In vitro effect of burned pasture soil on eggs and free-living larvae of ruminant gastrointestinal nematodes