Sam Abraham MSc, PhD

Professor Sam Abraham grew up in Kerala, in the southwest of India. In 2006, he received his BSc, in Zoology from Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala. Shortly after, he moved to Australia in pursuit of higher education and joined the University of Wollongong to undertake a Masters in Biotechnology. Subsequently, he completed a Ph.D. in Micro and Molecular Biology from the University of Wollongong (2012) undertaking his research at the Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Research Institute, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries. In 2012, he moved to the University of Adelaide, to undertake a post-doctoral research fellowship in Antimicrobial Resistance with Prof. Darren Trott. Along with Prof. Trott, he established the First National Network on Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance in Australian Animals. In 2015, he joined Murdoch University as an academic lecturer in microbiology. He runs the antimicrobial resistance and infectious diseases (AMRID) laboratory at Murdoch University.