Freya F Bruveris ASSCR, AGCTS, ISCT ANZ and Friends Joint Scientific Conference 2019

Freya F Bruveris

Freya Faith Bruveris – Research Officer Blood Development Murdoch Children's Research Institute, The Royal Children's Hospital Honorary Fellow, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne I completed a Bachelor of Arts/Science degree at the Clayton campus of Monash University in 2011 with majors in Developmental Biology and Psychology. For the final two and a half years of my undergraduate studies I worked as a Research Assistant within the Human Embryonic Stem Cell and Differentiation Laboratory at Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories (MISCL) under the supervision of Professor Andrew Elefanty and Elizabeth Ng. I remained at MISCL and in 2012 undertook my Honours year under the same supervision and completed my thesis on “Characterisation of haematopoietic populations emerging from human embryonic stem cells”. From 2013-2017 completed my PhD at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) in the Blood Cell Development and Disease Group staying with Professor Andrew Elefanty, Elizabeth Ng and Ed Stanley. My thesis was titled “The roles of SOX17 and RUNX1 in the generation of haematopoietic lineages from human pluripotent stem cells”. Following the submission of my thesis I was granted a postdoctoral position at MCRI.