Emily Furlong

Emily Furlong is a lecturer and established her own lab in the Research School of Biology at The Australian National University. Her research interests include understanding how bacteria make their virulence factors and respond to oxidative stress. Emily completed a BSc and Honours at the University of Queensland before undertaking a PhD at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience. Her PhD research focused on the structural and functional characterisation of an understudied class of copper resistance proteins from the uropathogen Proteus mirabilis. During her PhD, she spent 6 months at the University of Oxford learning cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). She returned to Australia in 2021 and worked with Dr Alastair Stewart at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute on bacterial ATP synthases. She became a lecturer at ANU in 2023.

Emily J. Furlong is a Lecturer at the Australian National University, specializing in structural biology with a focus on bacterial systems. Her research explores the molecular mechanisms of bacterial virulence, particularly through the structural characterization of virulence factors and their functional roles in pathogenesis. Using advanced techniques such as X-ray crystallography and cryoEM, she investigates the structural basis of bacterial motility, secretion, and resistance mechanisms. Her work includes studies on flagellar basal bodies, disulfide oxidoreductases, and copper resistance proteins, contributing to the understanding of bacterial pathogenesis and potential therapeutic targets.