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Living with animals

Cheryl J. Power and Glenn F. Browning
Microbiology Australia https://doi.org/10.1071/MA25002
Published: 13 March 2025

© 2025 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of the ASM. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

Biographies

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Cheryl Power is an honorary fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at The University of Melbourne after a teaching career that spanned 30 years. She served as vice president corporate affairs of The ASM for two terms and is an honorary life member of the society. Her contribution to teaching was recognised by the naming of the ASM Cheryl Power Early Career Microbiology Educator award.

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Glenn Browning is director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health in the Melbourne Veterinary School. His research focuses on applying an understanding of the fundamental pathogenesis and epidemiology of infectious diseases to development of solutions to problems in animal health. His team has developed novel attenuated vaccines and diagnostic assays to control bacterial and viral respiratory diseases of livestock, elucidated reasons for emergence and spread of infectious diseases in livestock, and advanced antimicrobial stewardship in animal health.