Department of Microbiology and Immunology (1996 - )

The Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne was established to teach and conduct research in the areas of bacteriology, virology, immunology and biotechnology.

It houses the Microbiological Diagnostic Unit
(MDU) and the Media Preparation Unit (MPU).

• Microbiology and Immunology Department

The Microbiological Diagnostic Unit (MDU) is a public health laboratory involved in microbiological diagnosis and surveillance. It monitors community health and preventive activities such as rates of sexually transmitted diseases…...

The Media Preparation Unit (MPU) is a facility for producing microbiological culture media for assessing microbiological activity in food, water, dairy products, meat, industrial processes, and agricultural and veterinary enterprises.The unit's services are available to all businesses wishing to purchase culture media.

The department is one of the largest microbiological and immunological teaching and research centres in Australia. It incorporates 21 research groups as follows;- AIDS Immunology, Autoimmunity, Bacterial Genetics and Molecular Biology, Bacterial Immunology, Bacterial Pathogen and Vaccines, Bacterial Population Genetics, Epitope Discovery Haloarchael Genetics, Herpesvirus Immunobiology, HIV and Hepatitis B Pathogen, HIV Vaccines, Immunology of Diabetes, Influenza Virus Immunology and Vaccines,
Innate Immunity to Influenza Virus, Microbial Ecology, Molecular Biology of Bacterial Infections, Molecular Virology, Mycobacteria, Natural Killer Cell Biology, Rotavirus Pathogenesis and Immunity and Synthetic Vaccine Design.

Events

1905 - 1929	Richard James Arthur Berry employed as Professor of Anatomy
1929	Frederick Wood Jones appointed Professor of Anatomy

Previous and Subsequent Entities

 1929 - 1965 Department of Bacteriology
       1965 - 1996 School of Microbiology
             1996 - Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Faculty

• Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne (1991 - )