Galleria Research Facility: Bringing a Flexible, Accessible and Ethical Animal Model to Macquarie

We will establish Australia’s first dedicated high-throughput facility for Galleria mellonella as a versatile animal model. Galleria insect larvae are an effective, cost-effective and ethical model organism, used routinely in Europe and America for numerous applications, including bacterial infection models, drug pharmacological and chemical toxicity studies, microbe-microbe or microbe-host interactions and bioremediation. The Galleria Research Facility will house dynamic climate control chambers for larvae breeding and experiments, equipment for high-throughput manipulation in a PC2 setting. The facility will greatly enhance Macquarie’s research capacity across diverse disciplines, spanning biology, pharmacology, chemistry, medicine and environmental science and attract external funding and collaborations