Rob Moore

Professor Rob Moore is an internationally recognised veterinary microbiologist. His research portfolio encompasses studies on bacterial pathogens, vaccination, genomics, gut microbiota, and probiotics.

Professor Moore leads an active research group that publishes widely, secures funding from industry and government, and works with a wide network of collaborators. Over the last decade the research in his laboratories has been largely industry supported by funding through the Australian Research Council Linkage Program, Poultry Cooperative Research Centre, Poultry Hub Australia, Australian Eggs, AgriFutures Australia, and various collaborations with commercial partners. He is currently working with several industry partners to commercialize various aspects of his work on Necrotic Enteritis and Spotty Liver Disease of chickens, vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics. It is anticipated that these commercial developments will deliver tools to the industry to allow the control and management of these important diseases.

Professor Moore is a regular invited speaker at a range of local, national, and international conferences and has been on the Organizing Committees of 4 international conferences and 5 national conferences and has participated in a fully funded tour of veterinary research establishments in China, aimed at developing linkages between Australia and China. He was a founding member of the Executive Committee of the Victorian Infection and Immunity Network, an organization that aims to facilitate collaboration and interaction between researchers in these fields of research. He has reviewed for national and international granting agencies and has peer reviewed manuscripts for more than 75 journals. He is an editor for Frontiers in Microbiology, Scientific Reports, the Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology, and Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Dr Moore has a network of research collaborators both nationally and internationally, including in Belgium, UK, USA, Canada, and Brazil.

Prof Moore has supervised 17 PhD students and 2 Masters students to completion and currently supervises 7 PhD students. He has mentored a number of post-doctoral researchers who have gone on to now lead their own independent research groups within CSIRO, one post-doc has gone on to establish their own independent university research group and risen to professor, and another now works in industry. Prof Moore has hosted year-long placements for visiting senior scientists from Japan, Brazil and China.

Industry experience:
Professor Moore works closely with industry partners, consulting for a number of companies and undertaking research projects with others. He has worked on a series of projects with Bioproperties Pty Ltd, an Australian company that researchers, develops, manufactures, and sells live veterinary vaccines in the global market. He also works with Terragen Biotech, an Australian company that develops, manufactures, and markets microbial products to enhance agriculture. He has a long and ongoing relationship with Scolexia Pty Ltd, and animal and avian health consultancy, working with them to undertake fundamental research on avian diseases and provide animal disease models used to evaluate veterinary products for other companies.

Before joining RMIT University Professor Moore worked at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and in the R&D department of a multi-national animal health company.

His research has been supported by industry funding from AgriFutures Australia, Australian Eggs, and Poultry Hub Australia.