ASTRA 2025

Archita Mishra

Invited Speaker, University of Sydney

Dr Archita Mishra leads the Early-life Microbiome and Immunity Lab at the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney. She is a Sydney Horizon Fellow and a 2025 NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow. Her research explores how microbes shape immune development from the earliest stages of life, with a focus on translating these insights into interventions that improve long-term health outcomes—especially for premature and at-risk infants.

Before joining the University of Sydney, Dr Mishra established and led the Early-life Microbial Immunology Program at the Telethon Kids Institute as a Raine BrightSpark Fellow. She completed her postdoctoral training as a Human Frontier Science Program Fellow at A*STAR Singapore, working with Prof. Florent Ginhoux on fetal immune priming by microbes.

Dr Mishra's work combines cutting-edge approaches such as single-cell genomics, spatial transcriptomics, metagenomics, and advanced cytometry. She has published in leading journals including Cell, Immunity, The Lancet, and Nature Communications, and is regularly invited to speak at major international conferences such as HCA, Oz Single Cell, ASI, MIM, and the Spatial Biology Congress. Her contributions have been recognised with multiple competitive awards, including the HFSP Long-Term Fellowship, INSA Young Scientist Award, Raine BrightSpark Fellowship, Sydney Horizon Fellowship, and NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellowship.