She achieved her specialization in Melbourne working in the liver transplant unit, sparking an interest in virology and immunology that lead her to a PhD with A. Prof. David Anderson at the Macfarlane Burnet Institute, University of Melbourne. She then pursued postdoctoral studies with A. Prof. Peter Thorn at the University of Queensland developing multi-photon microscopy of intracellular vesicular behavior, before joining Prof. Ian Frazer’s team where she has been pursuing the visualization of effector T cell behavior and function in epithelial tissues in vitro and in vivo.