Dr Rhys Grinter runs the Molecular Physiology of Microbial Pathogens (MP²) Lab in the Department of Microbiology at Monash University. He completed an honours degree in Biotechnology at Flinders University and received his PhD from the University of Glasgow. In 2015, he obtained a Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship and returned from the UK to Australia, to work on iron uptake by bacterial pathogens at Monash University. In 2021, he founded his lab and was awarded an NHMRC Investigator Grant to continue his work on iron piracy by bacterial pathogens. In addition to this work, he performs ARC-funded research into the structure and function of bacterial enzymes that oxidise atmospheric trace gases and discovering novel antibiotics to combat the antibiotic resistance crisis. The Grinter lab utilises current and emerging technologies to understand how microbes work. It harnesses this understanding to prevent disease and to develop enzymes and natural products as tools for biotechnology. It utilises diverse techniques across genomics, bioinformatics, molecular microbiology, biochemistry, and structural biology.