Dr Robert Moore is a molecular biologist working to improve poultry health using gene technologies such as microarrays, microRNAs and RNA interference (gene silencing).
Current activities
Dr Moore is a molecular biologist working on:
- bacterial pathogenesis
- host-pathogen interactions
- the role of small ribonucleic acids (RNAs) in cellular development.
He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia and a member of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics.
Dr Moore leads the gene technologies group at CSIRO's Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) in Geelong, Australia. Work in his laboratory is supported by the Australian Poultry Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) and the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (Chicken Meat Program).
Dr Moore is a project leader for three Australian Poultry CRC projects and he has established a microarray facility within the Australian Centre for Poultry Immunogenomics. The Centre is dedicated to developing new medicines and vaccines to fight poultry diseases and is located at AAHL.
Dr Moore currently supervises four doctoral students and he has supervised five other doctoral students who have graduated.
Background
Dr Moore joined CSIRO in 1994.
His initial CSIRO project investigated Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis' potential as a live vaccine vector. Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis is the causative agent of cheesy gland, a common bacterial disease of sheep.
For ten years, Dr Moore served on the editorial board of the journal Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry. He is an inventor on six patents.
In subsequent projects Dr Moore improved the methods used for whole genome expression library immunisation. He applied these improvements to an antigen discovery project involving Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae - the causative agent of porcine enzootic pneumonia, a disease commonly seen in growing and finishing pigs.
Before joining CSIRO he worked with a multi-national animal health company, initially on anti-parasite vaccine projects and then developing a recombinant protein production system and managing a pilot-scale plant for its manufacture.
Academic qualifications
Dr Moore has been awarded a Bachelor of Science with Honours and a Doctor of Philosophy, both from Monash University.
His doctoral thesis was titled The physical and genetic organisation of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa plasmid R91-5.
Dr Moore undertook two Postdoctoral Fellowships:
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one at the European Molecular Biology Organisation, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK), working on a bacterial insertion sequence
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another at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories, UK (now Cancer Research UK), working on a retrovirus and the oncogene that it activates.
Achievements
From 1996-2006, Dr Moore served on the editorial board of the journal Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry.
He has refereed papers for the following journals:
He has authored over three dozen refereed publications and is an inventor on six patents.
Dr Moore also:
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serves on the AAHL Institutional Biosafety Committee
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is on the Executive Committee of the Monash Infection and Immunity Network
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is a member of the American Society for Microbiology.
Learn more about CSIRO research using gene silencing to help protect poultry from avian influenza.
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