Dr Kelly Hill
Biography
Dr Kelly Hill is a research scientist with 16 years of experience in molecular research related to organisms impacting Australia’s primary industries and environment. Following an undergraduate degree in Nanotechnology, she completed a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Adelaide in 2009 and joined SARDI the same year.
Dr Hill joined SARDI’s entomology department as part of a CRC for plant biosecurity project investigating genes and their protein products involved in invertebrate pheromone perception and has since established herself in molecular diagnostics for a variety of organisms including bacteria, fungi, insects, and marine pests.
In her current role within the Molecular Diagnostic subprogram, Dr Hill contributes to a wide range of projects involving molecular diagnostics, high throughput sequencing (Illumina & Nanopore), bioinformatics and qPCR assay design and validation.
Research interests
- Designing and validating diagnostic assays
- Developing and optimising high throughput sequencing protocols and bioinformatic pipelines
- Investigating environmental DNA as a biomarker for high priority pest surveillance
- Novel diagnostic platforms
Qualifications
- PhD, 2009, University of Adelaide
- BSc (Hons) 2004, Flinders University
Professional affiliations
- Member, Southern eDNA society
- Member, National High Throughput Sequencing Working Group
Publications and reports
- Wiltshire, K.H., Giblot-Ducray, D., Hill, K., Herdina, Willan, R.C., Ellard, K. and Deveney, M. R. (2023) Assessment of analytical and field performance of qPCR assays for priority marine pests. Report to the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.
- Blake Gontar, Tara Garrard, Laura Davies, Kelly Hill and Alan McKay (2020) The health report - emerging pulse root diseases.
- Bulman, S.R., McDougal, R.L., Hill, K., and Lear, G. (2018) Opportunities and limitations for DNA metabarcoding in Australasian plant-pathogen biosecurity. Australasian Plant Pathology 47, 467-474.
- Glatz, R. and K. Bailey-Hill (2011) Mimicking nature's noses: From receptor deorphaning to olfactory biosensing. Progress in Neurobiology 93(2): 270-296.
- Kelly Bailey and Marta Bally (equal contributors), Wayne Leifert, Janos Vörös and Ted McMurchie. (2009) G-protein coupled receptor array technologies. Proteomics 9: 2052-2063.
