Dr Laura Boelsen
Dr Laura Boelsen
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Dr Laura Boelsen is a Research Officer at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, where she began her career in 2010 as a Research Assistant on the Bill and Melinda Gates-funded PneuCarriage project, comparing pneumococcal serotyping methods for the detection of multiple serotype carriage. She then completed a PhD focussing on pneumococcal vaccination and carriage in Fiji, looking at the effects of vaccination on microbiota, the indirect effects of infant vaccination in an adult population and the long-term effects of various vaccine schedules.
Laura's postdoctoral research focuses on microbial genomics and the microbiome with an emphasis on global child health and vaccine impact. She leads the pneumococcal genomics program within the Translational Microbiology group, supporting vaccine impact and carriage studies mainly across the Asia–Pacific region. Her research uses whole-genome sequencing to understand how pneumococcal populations change following vaccination, including changes in circulating serotypes, lineages and antimicrobial resistance patterns in children with pneumonia in countries such as Laos, Mongolia, and Papua New Guinea.
Alongside her genomics work, Laura has an interest in human microbiome research and is keen to tackle new and interesting questions that can be answered by considering the wider microbiota in an environment influencing health and disease.
Laura's postdoctoral research focuses on microbial genomics and the microbiome with an emphasis on global child health and vaccine impact. She leads the pneumococcal genomics program within the Translational Microbiology group, supporting vaccine impact and carriage studies mainly across the Asia–Pacific region. Her research uses whole-genome sequencing to understand how pneumococcal populations change following vaccination, including changes in circulating serotypes, lineages and antimicrobial resistance patterns in children with pneumonia in countries such as Laos, Mongolia, and Papua New Guinea.
Alongside her genomics work, Laura has an interest in human microbiome research and is keen to tackle new and interesting questions that can be answered by considering the wider microbiota in an environment influencing health and disease.
Dr Laura Boelsen is a Research Officer at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, where she began her career in 2010 as a Research Assistant on the Bill and Melinda Gates-funded PneuCarriage project, comparing pneumococcal serotyping methods for the...
Dr Laura Boelsen is a Research Officer at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, where she began her career in 2010 as a Research Assistant on the Bill and Melinda Gates-funded PneuCarriage project, comparing pneumococcal serotyping methods for the detection of multiple serotype carriage. She then completed a PhD focussing on pneumococcal vaccination and carriage in Fiji, looking at the effects of vaccination on microbiota, the indirect effects of infant vaccination in an adult population and the long-term effects of various vaccine schedules.
Laura's postdoctoral research focuses on microbial genomics and the microbiome with an emphasis on global child health and vaccine impact. She leads the pneumococcal genomics program within the Translational Microbiology group, supporting vaccine impact and carriage studies mainly across the Asia–Pacific region. Her research uses whole-genome sequencing to understand how pneumococcal populations change following vaccination, including changes in circulating serotypes, lineages and antimicrobial resistance patterns in children with pneumonia in countries such as Laos, Mongolia, and Papua New Guinea.
Alongside her genomics work, Laura has an interest in human microbiome research and is keen to tackle new and interesting questions that can be answered by considering the wider microbiota in an environment influencing health and disease.
Laura's postdoctoral research focuses on microbial genomics and the microbiome with an emphasis on global child health and vaccine impact. She leads the pneumococcal genomics program within the Translational Microbiology group, supporting vaccine impact and carriage studies mainly across the Asia–Pacific region. Her research uses whole-genome sequencing to understand how pneumococcal populations change following vaccination, including changes in circulating serotypes, lineages and antimicrobial resistance patterns in children with pneumonia in countries such as Laos, Mongolia, and Papua New Guinea.
Alongside her genomics work, Laura has an interest in human microbiome research and is keen to tackle new and interesting questions that can be answered by considering the wider microbiota in an environment influencing health and disease.
Top Publications
- Boelsen, LK, Williams, MJ, Mangwiro, YT, Hansji, H, Czajko, A, Marcelino, V, Forster, S, Said, JM, Satzke, C, Saffery, R. The potential of residual clinical Group B Streptococcus swabs for assessing the vaginorectal microbiome in late pregnancy.. Sci Rep 14(1) : 19318 2024 view publication
- von Mollendorf, C, Mungun, T, Ulziibayar, M, Skoko, P, Boelsen, L, Nguyen, C, Batsaikhan, P, Suuri, B, Luvsantseren, D, Narangerel, D, et al. Effect of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine six years post-introduction on pneumococcal carriage in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.. Nat Commun 15(1) : 6577 2024 view publication
- Boelsen, LK, Dunne, EM, Gould, KA, Ratu, FT, Vidal, JE, Russell, FM, Mulholland, EK, Hinds, J, Satzke, C. The Challenges of Using Oropharyngeal Samples To Measure Pneumococcal Carriage in Adults.. mSphere 5(4) : 2020 view publication
- Boelsen, LK, Dunne, EM, Mika, M, Eggers, S, Nguyen, CD, Ratu, FT, Russell, FM, Mulholland, EK, Hilty, M, Satzke, C. The association between pneumococcal vaccination, ethnicity, and the nasopharyngeal microbiota of children in Fiji.. Microbiome 7(1) : 106 2019 view publication
- Dunne, EM, Satzke, C, Ratu, FT, Neal, EFG, Boelsen, LK, Matanitobua, S, Pell, CL, Nation, ML, Ortika, BD, Reyburn, R, et al. Effect of ten-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction on pneumococcal carriage in Fiji: results from four annual cross-sectional carriage surveys.. Lancet Glob Health 6(12) : e1375 -e1385 2018 view publication
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