Professor Harrison is an immunologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and Royal Melbourne Hospital.  His research centres on the developmental origins of immune-inflammatory diseases of childhood - type 1 diabetes, coeliac disease and allergies -  studied in longitudinal birth cohorts using genetic, cellular and molecular techniques.

Dr Sarah Ashley is a Senior Research Officer in Professor Mimi Tang's Allergy Immunology research group at MCRI. She is a computational biologist working on food allergy immune mechanisms studies in HealthNuts, PPOIT and BIS with a special interest in genomic mechanisms underpinning food allergy development and resolution.

Kavindi Gamage is a PhD student conducting a multidisciplinary project at the University of Melbourne and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She is interested in leveraging longitudinal data to explore the childhood origins of health inequalities across population contexts and identify opportunities for early intervention using causal inference methods.

Saeed Ghobadi is a PhD student at the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN), Deakin University. He is a Nutritionist with experience in public health nutrition, clinical dietetics, research, and community health. Saeed’s research focuses on assessing the associations between lifestyle patterns and cardiovascular risk profiles in children and adolescents.

Lada has a background in genetics, economics, and applied chemistry, with experience spanning laboratory science, clinical trials, and data analysis. Her PhD at the Barwon Infant Study investigates diet, epigenetic programming, and child development.

Kris started her PhD in 2021 at The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. Her research aims to understand how environmental and lifestyle factors affect your body’s lipids (e.g. fats), and how those lipids in turn, are linked to brain development.

Sam uses bioinformatics and machine-learning approaches to investigate the neurodevelopmental mechanisms underlying autism and ADHD, with a focus on the role of epigenetics in mediating the effects of prenatal neurotoxicant exposures.

Katherine (Katie) Drummond is an early-career neuroscientist and molecular epidemiologist whose research focuses on how early-life exposure to environmental chemicals influences brain health. Her work addresses growing global concern about the impact of modern chemical exposures on human health.

Yuan started her PhD journey with the BIS team in 2018 to understand the role of the gut microbiome in immune-related diseases. Her current research focus is looking at the infant gut microbiome and atopic wheeze during childhood.

Associate Professor Mihiri Silva combines her clinical role as a Consultant Paediatric Dentist at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, with academic and research appointments at the Melbourne Dental School, University of Melbourne and Murdoch Children's Research Institute. A major focus of her work has been the use of large longitudinal birth cohort studies to understand environmental drivers of poor oral health in children and develop innovative evidence-based population and clinical interventions to address these.