I am a research scientist in microbiology and infectious diseases. I am an expert in molecular biology, microbiology and comptuational biology/bioinformatics. Science is my day job, in particular analysing and visualising data. I’ve spent a lot of time looking at bacterial pathogens and how they transmit, along with their evolution, metabolism and resistance. My main focus is developing strategies to prevent and limit the spread of antimicrobial resistance through vaccine design, novel antimicrobial discovery, gene technologies and surveillance.

Me!

I currently work as a postdoc at the Department of Infectious Diseases, Monash University (2020-Current).

My lab coat

Academic cred

If you want to check out my academic work and contributions to science:

• Google Scholar
• OpenAlex
• ORCiD
• GitHub

Socials

You can find me on:

• Bluesky @bananabenana.bsky.social
• LinkedIn

Previous gigs

• Consulting for the agricultral biotechnology sector (2020-Current)
• Postdoc at the Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery (2019-2020)
• PhD from Monash University (2014-2018)
  • Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness, CSIRO
  • Department of Microbiology, Monash University
  • School of Science, RMIT University
• Honours from Deakin University (2013-2014)
  • Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness, CSIRO
  • School of Medicine, Deakin University
• One-pager resume

Inspo and motivation

Starting this blog was motivated by a yearning for >300 character-self-expression in a semi-professional context, while providing a potentially useful resource for other scientists or dabbling computational biologists. I was inspired by the informative and enjoyable blogs of several peers. The blog title is inspired by the Marge Simpson-suggested Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net, because what am I gonna call my [blog]? All the good names are taken.

Credit: The Simpsons (and whoever owns them now).

Meme-tier disclaimer

This blog is not affiliated with any of my current or past employers, nor does it represent their views etc. I’m not even sure it represents my views. Let’s find out together.

Citation

• If you find any of the blog’s content useful or make use of any of the resources, please cite the Zenodo DOI with the URL of the post.

Licensing information

• Aside from the blog title, the content of this blog including all images, figures and text are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), so feel free to use, copy, edit etc, just chuck me a reference.

• Third-party images remain the property of their copyright holders and will be attributed when used.
• Copyright © 2025 Ben Vezina