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Kelly Wyres is an Associate Professor and Research Group Leader at the Department of Infectious Diseases at Monash University, where she leads the NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow program. Her research is focused on the use of comparative genomics and metabolic modeling to study Klebsiella pneumoniae, a bacterium known for causing numerous hospital-associated infections and exhibiting high rates of drug resistance. She investigates the diversity of surface antigens as potential targets for new vaccines and phage therapies. Wyres co-developed Kaptive, a web-based tool for identifying Klebsiella surface polysaccharide loci based on whole genome sequencing data. Additionally, she played a significant role in developing Kleborate, a comprehensive genotyping tool for K. pneumoniae utilized by global public health labs. Her contributions extend to the Bactabolize project, which aims to create strain-specific metabolic models to predict growth phenotypes from genome assemblies. She is a co-leader of the KlebNET-GSP project, focusing on the genomic surveillance of K. pneumoniae and its closely related species. Wyres has previous experience as a staff researcher at IBM Research in Australia, where she was a founding member of the Genomics Team and worked on projects related to drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. She completed her DPhil and Bachelor's degrees at the University of Oxford, focusing on genomic evolution and the development of antibiotic resistance.
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