The Macquarie Galleria Research Facility

Galleria mellonella

Australia’s first fully functional, high-throughput facility for Galleria mellonella as a versatile in vivo invertebrate animal model.

Galleria caterpillar larvae are an effective, low-cost and ethical model organism, used routinely in Europe and America for numerous applications including:

• infection and pathogenicity models
• pharmacological and chemical toxicity studies
• microbe-microbe or microbe-host interactions
• bioremediation.

About us

The Galleria Research facility was established in 2020 at Macquarie University’s Applied Biosciences laboratories across the labs of Amy Cain and Ian Paulsen. We are dedicated to delivering high quality research that increase the research options for in vivo testing by providing an efficient, ethical, and affordable animal model across:

• biology
• molecular sciences
• pharmacology
• chemistry
• medicine
• environmental science.

The Galleria Research Facility is uniquely positioned in Applied BioSciences where we have been working closely with Distinguished Prof. Phil Taylor and Dr. Maciej Maselko to build PC2-insectaries and several state-of-the-art dynamic climate control chambers (controlling temperature, lighting, and humidity requirements) for larvae colony breeding and test injections. Additionally, it has equipment for high throughput restricted and genetically modified pathogens manipulation in a safe, PC2 setting.

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