tissue and cells, plant tissue, parasites, paralysis ticks, coral, snake venom and the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus. Liz Harry is a Professor of Biology and Deputy Director of the ithree institute (infection, immunology and innovation) at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). Liz obtained her PhD at the University of Sydney, was an NIH Fellow at Harvard, an Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellow and an ARC QEII Fellow in the School of Molecular Biosciences at the

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... y of Sydney. She has won an Australian Eureka Prize for Scientific research, and an ASM Frank Fenner Award. Her research focuses on bacterial cell division and antibacterials. Dee Carter is an Associate Professor and head of the Discipline of Microbiology in the School of Molecular Bioscience, The University of Sydney, where she teaches mycology, medical microbiology and molecular biology. Her current research interests focus on using 'omics approaches to understand fungal pathogenesis and to develop novel antifungal agents. She loves fungi because they are so adaptable and clever, making them excellent pets but also devastating enemies. She is particularly fond of Saccharomyces because it fits into the former category, Cryptococcus because it fits into the latter, and Aspergillus because it manages to straddle both.