DrLuisa Monteiro de Miranda

Lecturer of Veterinary Pathology in the units VETS6108, VETS6204 and VETS6208; Veterinary Immunology in the Unit VETS6108.

Research supervisor of DVM, Honours, Masters and PhD students.

Ongoing supervisions

• Hannah Newton (PhD). Co-supervisor. Host-pathogen-environment interactions between Cryptococcus, koalas and eucalypt trees and their role in pathogen virulence, host exposure and disease progression.
• Elissa Shinozaki (Masters). Co-supervisor. Epidemiological investigation of fungal burden in dogs and cats in Sydney.
• Avril Tsen (Masters). Co-supervisor. Histopathological analysis of a murine model of cryptococcosis using virulent environmental strains of Cryptococcus.
• Caroline Carlton (Masters). Co-supervisor. Prevalence and long- term health outcomes in Australian shelter cats exposed to feline coronavirus and common feline respiratory pathogens.
• Alex Teh (Masters). Co-supervisor. The Molecular Pathogenesis of Feline Papillomavirus and Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinomas.

Concluded supervisions

• Brooke Martyn (Honours), 2024. Primary supervisor. Investigating the effect of hollow morphology and microclimate on the presence and species of Cryptococcus in eucalypt tree hollows in an area with previous isolation of Cryptococcus pathogenic species.
• Joanna McNutt (Honours), 2024. Primary supervisor. Validation of a Real-Time PCR assay to detect Cryptococcus spp. in Koala nasal swabs and comparing its performance to fungal culture.
• Milla Holt (Honours), 2024. Co-supervisor. Investigating the utility of rapid antigen tests for the diagnosis of upper respiratory tract infections in shelter cats.
• Chloe Leung (Honours), 2024. Co-supervisor. Investigation of an outbreak of Trypanosomiasis in koalas and its correlation with clinical, laboratorial and environmental factors
• Laura Marshall (Honours), 2022. Primary supervisor. A description of free ranging Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) nasal microbiota and mycobiota composition and its correlation with local cytokine expression and infection of Cryptococcus.
• Hannah Newton (Honours), 2022 Co-supervisor. Assessment of genetic polymorphisms in the Caspase recruitment domain-containing protein 9 (CARD9) of koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) with and without nasal colonization by Cryptococcus spp. and correlation with the development of cryptococcosis.