Professor

Nicki Packer

FAA

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Distinguished Professor Nicolle Packer is a world leader in glycomics. Her research career has focused on analysing the complexity of glycans (carbohydrates and sugars). She is a pioneer in enabling, promoting and transforming glycoscience from an unrecognised niche research area into a high-impact international specialty field that has applications across medicine and agriculture. Her research has linked glycomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and bioinformatics to reveal fundamental facts on the importance of glycoconjugates and given new understanding of infection and disease with resultant drug targets. Professor Packer's research has demonstrated that analytical glycoscience has significant and unique relevance across diverse biological functions.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3101 BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY
    • 310107 Glycobiology
34 CHEMICAL SCIENCES
  • 3404 MEDICINAL AND BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
    • 340405 Glycoconjugates

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Gut Microbiome
  • Cancer Metastasis
  • Glycoprotein
  • Membrane Proteins
  • Glycobiology
  • Biological Chemistry
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Protein Structure-Function Relationships
  • Extracellular Vesicles
  • Carbohydrates
  • Host-microbe interactions
  • Functional Groups
  • Extracellular matrix
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Glycosciences
  • Databases
  • Biochemistry
  • Brain Structure
  • Glycomics
  • Proteins

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