Stacey Lynch

Stacey Lynch is a research team leader at CSIRO's Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness and Honorary (Fellow) Veterinary Bioscience, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne.

Stacey's primary focus is to deliver applied scientific outcomes through viral diagnostics, pathogen surveillance, activities to support international reference laboratories with impact across animal and public health. Specific research focus are pathogens in insect vectors (such as Ross River virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, Murray Valley encephalitis virus and Mycobacterium ulcerans, in addition to African swine fever virus). Key areas of research use multi-omic tools to enhance traditional research and surveillance programs, and mine "big data" to understand disease ecology to identify new public health and animal health intervention strategies. Stacey is based at the CSIRO's Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness in Geelong.

Stacey regularly provides lectures in a range of undergraduate and post-graduate courses through the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences and has co-supervised a number of research students from Charles Sturt University (CSU), La Trobe University (School of Applied Systems Biology), The University of Melbourne, The University of Liverpool and the International Livestock and Research Institute, Ethiopia.

Stacey is the current "Membership Secretary" for the Australasian Virology Society https://www.avs.org.au/ and a member of the Mosquito Control Association of Australia (MCAA) https://mcaa.org.au/