After completing an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at Imperial College London, Marc was awarded a Wellcome Trust Prize Studentship to pursue a PhD with Prof. Erhard Hohenester at Imperial College London, investigating collagen-binding proteins in the extracellular matrix. In 2004 he took up a Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of America fellowship to work with Prof. Peter Colman at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, where he developed a passion for host-pathogen interactions. His post-doctoral work centered on the molecular basis of virus mediated subversion of host cell death. In 2010, Marc establish the inaugural structural biology laboratory at La Trobe University, where his work expanded into the role of innate immunity molecules in anti-microbial defence and cell polarity signaling. Marc is currently a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry & Genetics. In addition to a passion for research he is also committed to communicating science to the public, and his efforts in both areas have been recognized by the Victorian Tall Poppy in Science award and the Sandy Mathison Medal from the Society of Crystallographers from Australia and New Zealand.