Thisun BH Piyasena 9th Australasian Virology Society Meeting 2017

Thisun BH Piyasena

Thisun Piyasena graduated with a degree in biomedical science with honours from the University of Queensland. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Australian Infectious Diseases Research Institute at UQ, exploring the molecular biology of flaviviruses and their adaptation to mosquito hosts. His most recent work involved generating chimeric flaviviruses which contained the structural proteins of WNV, DENV and ZIKV on an insect-specific flavivirus backbone. His research interests include immunology and infectious diseases.

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