Ana Traven

Ana Traven is a Professor in the Biomedicine Discovery Institute at Monash University in Melbourne, where she established the Infection research division and co-led an international postdoctoral training program in antimicrobial resistance within the Monash-Warwick Alliance. Her laboratory studies host-pathogen interactions and the roles of metabolism in Candida species.

Ana did her undergraduate and PhD training in molecular biology at the University of Zagreb and the Rudjer Boskovic Institute, followed by postdoctoral research at the St. Vincent’s Institute in Melbourne. In 2009, she started her own laboratory and moved into the field of medical mycology. She co-founded the Eukaryotic Microbes Special Interest Group with the Australian Society for Microbiology, co-organised the 2022 edition of the FEBS Course in Human Fungal Pathogens and will assume Co-Convenorship of the Victorian Infection & Immunity Network in 2026. Her contributions to mycology have been recognised by prestigious Australian research fellowships, the Georgina Sweet Award for Women in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences and election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.