Nichollas E. Scott

Dr Scott is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and group leader at the University of Melbourne. He received his PhD from the University of Sydney (2012) on MS characterisation of bacterial protein modifications and undertook postdoctoral training at the University of British Columbia (2012-2015) on proteomics-based systems biology. In 2016 Dr Scott returned to Australia and in 2017 he established his independent research group focusing on the characterisation of microbial glycosylation systems.

Dr Scott’s work on glycoproteomics has demonstrated that microbial glycosylation events are both widespread and play a multifaceted role in microbes. These insights have resulted in recognition of his work across the fields of glycobiology, proteomics and microbiology in the form of awards including the International Glycoconjugate Organization Young Glycoscientist Award in 2019; the Australasian Proteomics Society 2017 Ken Mitchelhill Award as well as the Australian Society for Microbiology Frank Fenner Award in 2021.