About
Dr Catherine Gordon is a molecular parasitologist and senior research officer at QIMR Berghofer in the molecular parasitology laboratory, as well as parasitology lecturer at the University of Queensland, and the Queensland University of Technology.
Dr Gordon has completed a Bachelor of Science (Microbiology and Biomedicine) with first class honours (Marine Parasitology) and a PhD (Public Health: Molecular Parasitology) from the University of Queensland. She has a track record in molecular parasitology techniques for diagnosis and epidemiology, medical parasitology, neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), transmission dynamics, and filed work in both the Philippines and China on animal and human parasitic diseases.
Her current research is investigating new molecular tools for diagnosis of a range of parasitic diseases including schistosomiasis, tapeworm, protozoa, and soil-transmitted helminths, focusing on molecular diagnostics. She has a track record in molecular diagnostic tests for helminth parasites, including digital droplet PCR, and qPCR diagnose schistosomiasis (the molecular assay to be used in the current project), and multiplex qPCR for soil-transmitted helminths, and tapeworms in China and the Philippines.