Michelle Wille: One Health Seminar: Highly pathogenic avian influenza in Antarctica

Highly pathogenic avian influenza in Antarctica

Dr. Michelle Wille is the outreach coordinator at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza and a senior researcher at the University of Melbourne. Her interests centre around viruses of wild birds. She has been working on avian influenza since 2008, and has worked in North America, Europe and Australia. Her recent work has revealed both the ecology and evolution of these viruses in Australia, and she is involved in activities pertaining to preparation for the potential emergence of HPAI to Australia. She has also worked extensively on the virus communities in wild birds, describing not only a wide variety of viruses in healthy birds, but also interrogating factors that may influence these communities.

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