About

Fabian was born in Quito in Ecuador and embarked on his Australian journey in 2003, ultimately earning a Master's degree in Biomedical Sciences at QUT. He commenced work as the lab manager in the Infection and Immunology group in 2006.

Fabian's research skills include cell culture, working with pre-clinical models of malaria and leishmaniasis, processing and analysing human clinical samples, flow cytometry and CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing of primary human T cells.

Fabian coordinates laboratory operations and manages equipment under the lab’s care, such as the Seahorse metabolic analysis machine. He has also developed a number of analysis pipelines for the spectral, multi-parameter flow cytometry data generated by the lab from pre-clinical and clinical samples.