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Doctor Kylie Brice


Kylie BriceDr Kylie Brice is the Senior Administration Officer Industry and Engagement. Kylie is responsible for managing a portfolio of research projects, associated industry partnerships and providing pre- and post-award project support. She collaborates closely with academic staff to support industry stakeholder engagement and deliver executive/secretarial assistance across the portfolio of projects. Additionally, she will coordinate events, symposia, and workshops linked to project deliverables, enhancing the Institute's outreach and engagement efforts.
Kylie earned her PhD in 2017 from Western Sydney University HIE. Her PhD thesis sought to determine how diet impacts microbial community composition of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) gut microbiome within and between geographically separated koala populations. Kylie was awarded first class honours in 2012 through the WSU School of Science, for her honours project which was focused on identifying key immunological markers in Sminthopsis spp. Before joining HIE Kylie worked at the WSU Next Generation Sequencing Facility, where she processed customer DNA samples for amplicon sequencing using the Illumina MiSeq platform.
Kylie’s current position is as the first point of contact for the CRC Future Food Systems and the Centre of Excellence Plant Success projects. She is responsible for managing a portfolio of industry research projects by assisting lead investigators meet project deadlines. Kylie is involved in coordinating events including stakeholder meetings, on-site visits by industry partners, symposia, conferences and workshops.

Selected publications

Blyton, M.D., Brice, K.L., Heller-Uszynska, K., Pascoe, J., Jaccoud, D., Leigh, K.A. and Moore, B.D., 2023. A new genetic method for diet determination from faeces that provides species level resolution in the koala. bioRxiv,  https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.12.528172v1.full.pdf
Eisenhofer, R., Brice, K.L., Blyton, M.D., Bevins, S.E., Leigh, K., Singh, B.K., Helgen, K.M., Hough, I., Daniels, C.B., Speight, N. and Moore, B.D., 2023. Individuality and stability of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) faecal microbiota through time. Peer J, 11, https://peerj.com/articles/14598/
Brice, K.L., Trivedi, P., Jeffries, T.C., Blyton, M.D., Mitchell, C., Singh, B.K. and Moore, B.D., 2019. The Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) faecal microbiome differs with diet in a wild population. Peer J, 1 (7): 1-27 http://doi10.7717/peerj.6534
Brice, K.L., 2017. Bugs in" bears": Are mismatches between diets and gut microbial communities a bugbear for koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus)? (Doctoral dissertation, Western Sydney University (Australia)) https://researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au/islandora/object/uws:45500/datastream/PDF/view
Brice, K.L., 2012. Identifying key immunological markers in Sminthopsis spp. using molecular techniques. (Honours dissertation, Western Sydney University (Australia)).

Awards

Australian Postgraduate Award 2013-2016.
University of Western Sydney Top-up Award 2013-2016.
Honours First Class Issued by University of Western Sydney Sep 2012.
University Medal Issued by University of Western Sydney Sep 2012.
Dean’s Medal Issued by University of Western Sydney Sep 2011
University of Western Sydney Honours scholarship 2011-2012.