Laboratory Technical Officer 

Natalie joined the Taronga Wildlife Hospitals laboratory in 2017 where she assists in the operations of the diagnostic pathology laboratory.  

Natalie began her career as a trainee, spending four years at the CSIRO, in the department of Animal Health. From here she moved over to human pathology, where she has worked for 25 years, specialising in Microbiology for the majority of that time.

Prior to starting at Taronga, Natalie’s focus was predominantly microbiology and microbiology management, bringing her laboratory into full automation and implementing a Mass spectrophotometer (Maldi-tof) to aid in bacterial identification. Natalie brings knowledge of the human pathology world into the animal world and enjoys working out the comparisons between.