DrNichola Calvani

Current postgraduate students (2):

Lead supervisor:

• Hayley DeCristi: Investigating drivers of invasion, migration and development of Fasciola hepatica using 3D cell culture models (MPhil)

Co-supervisor:

• Athar Ali: Epidemiology and distribution of Fasciola hepatica in Australia (PhD; The University of Melbourne)

Current undergraduate students (4):

Lead supervisor:

• Priscilla Huynh: First frost, last frost: Updating current knowledge on the seasonality, diversity and abundance of Fasciola hepatica intermediate snail hosts in the NSW Southern Tablelands (AVBS Honours; Australian Wool Education Trust scholarship recipient)
• Chloe Burden: Fluke fate: Unravelling the role of macropods in liver fluke transmission on shared pastures (AVBS Honours)
• Lynnette Leong: Investigating sheep farmer Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices regarding hydatid disease in a former human hotspot in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia (DVM3 Research & Enquiry)
• Zofia Rydzewska: The prevalence of hydatids in farm dogs and macropods in the NSW Southern Tablelands (DVM3 Research & Enquiry)

Past postgraduate students (2):

Co-supervisor:

• Rose Power: Investigating macrocyclic lactone resistance in canine heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis) from Australia (PhD 2024)
• Phoebe Rivory: Distribution, genetic diversity and pathogenesis of Angiostrongylus in aberrant, definitive and intermediate hosts (PhD 2025)

Past undergraduate students (15):

Lead supervisor:

• Simran Vyas: A contemporary map of Fasciola hepatica distribution in sheep and cattle in New South Wales (DVM3 Research & Enquiry 2024)
• Chelsie Uthayakumar: Challenges in applying W.A.A.V.P. criteria to diagnose triclabendazole resistance in Fasciola hepatica, an example from the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia (AVBS Honours 2024; Australian Wool Education Trust scholarship recipient)
• Sean Burhop: Streamlining the development of 3D cell culture systems to study host:helminth interactions (AVBS Honours 2024)

Co-supervisor:

• Rose Power: Development of Next Generation Sequencing assays to identify mixed Bartonella sp. infections in fleas from Israel (AVBS Honours 2020)
• Jess Panetta: A comparison of traditional, serological and molecular diagnostic methods to determine the prevalence of canine heartworm, Dirofilaria immitis, in shelter dogs from Queensland, Australia (DVM3 Research and Enquiry 2020)
• Jeevitheswara Mallaiyaraj: The molecular identification of Angiostrongylus spp. responsible for eosinophilic meningitis in Australian dogs (AVBS Honours 2020)
• Aldo Nicoletti: Differentiation of Dirofilaria immitis and Acanthocheilonema reconditum in shelter dogs from Queensland, Australia by High Resolution Melt Analysis (AVBS Honours 2020)
• Emily Francis: Cooperia spp. detection and differentiation in Australian cattle (AVBS Honours 2019)
• Gemma Rush: Tritrichomonas foetus in Australian cattle (AVBS Honours 2018)
• Simin Khan: Farmer knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding the intermediate snail host of Fasciola gigantica in Lao PDR (AVBS Honours 2018)
• William Douglas: Toxocara canis in Sydney playgrounds (DVM3 Research and Enquiry 2018)
• Ben Kwok: Vertical transmission of Neospora caninum in Bernese Mountain Dogs (DVM3 Research and Enquiry 2017)
• Jess Panuccio: Bacterial load of i ticks from Sydney, Australia (AVBS Honours 2017)
• Jess Panetta: Reptile-associated Borrelia species in the Goanna tick (Bothriocroton undatum) from Sydney, Australia (AVBS Honours 2017)
• Karen Smith: Vector-borne disease in urban dogs from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (AVBS Honours 2016)