Associate Professor Willa Huston is a Molecular Microbiologist (PhD awarded 2004) with an interest in chlamydia and chlamydial diseases. Her work has mainly focussed on understadning the chlamydial mechanisms of disease, persistence, and how the disease causes infertility in women. She is also interested in the role proteases have in pathogenesis and biology.  She has strong expertise in intracellular infection models and human dsease models. Her team has research project on-going in chamydial biology, human disease pathology, diagnosis and treatment.