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Rachael Lappan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Monash University
Contact me for
- Mentoring
- Sitting on boards or committees
- Outreach activities
- Conference presenting
- Opportunities to collaborate
Biography
I completed my PhD in 2019 at The University of Western Australia on the microbiome of ear infections in children. I am excited by persistent microbes in unusual places. Now a postdoctoral fellow at Monash University, I am exploring microbial communities in informal settlements, the desert, the ocean and the aerosphere and am very interested in delving into extreme microbiology and astrobiology.