Michelle de Silva is the Centre Manager of the Particulate Fluids Processing Centre (PFPC) an Australian Research Council Special Research Centre at the University of Melbourne. The PFPC brings together internationally renowned researchers to form one of the world's leading multidisciplinary research centres in interfacial science and engineering.
The research programs within the PFPC pioneer understanding of the interactions at the interfaces between particles and the fluids within which they are dispersed. The PFPC encompasses staff and students from across the Departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Mathematics and Statistics along with the School of Chemistry and consists of approximately 25 senior academic staff, 45 research staff and 100 postgraduate students.
Michelle has a Bachelor of Science with majors in Genetics and Biochemistry and a PhD in Molecular Genetics. She has more than ten years of experience working as a medical researcher performing experimental research in the areas of gene discovery for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and cell regeneration therapies for hearing loss and heart disease.
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A protocol for cryoembedding the adult guinea pig cochlea for fluorescence immunohistology
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Chemical Engineering
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Doctor of Philosophy
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Science (Honours)
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Science
La Trobe University