Debnath Ghosal is a senior lecturer and an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry & Pharmacology, University of Melbourne. Debnath received his PhD degree in structural biology from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (University of Cambridge) and postdoctoral training from Caltech. Debnath established his own laboratory at University of Melbourne in 2020. His group is working on host-pathogen interaction, particularly how bacterial and viral pathogens use complex molecular machines to infect eukaryotic cells.