Associate Professor Robyn Marsh is a Principal Research Fellow at the Child and Maternal Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin, Australia. She received her BAppSc(MLS) from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1994, her MSc ftom Northern Territory University in 2001, and her PhD from Charles Darwin University in 2012. Her research aims to improve understanding of microbial factors that contribute to the onset, progression, and persistence of chronic lung and middle ear infections affecting children. She is specifically interested in understanding how bacteria in complex polymicrobial communities contribute to the onset and progression of chronic mucosal infections.