Ash Rogers

Ashleigh Rogers is an ECR working at the Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University. She completed her PhD in Clinical Microbiology at Monash University in 2024, under the supervision of Dr. Steven Mileto, Prof. Helen Abud, and Prof. Dena Lyras. Her studies focused on how the colon repairs following Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI)-mediated damage. Her work established and validated a novel CDI recovery mouse model and identified key timelines in the return of crucial intestinal integrity mechanisms, as well as, the impairment and activation of different regenerative mechanisms throughout CDI. Currently, Ash is working as an ECR in Prof. Dena Lyras' lab at Monash University, examining how bacterial pathogens respond and adapt to highly dynamic environments, namely a repairing colon.