Dr. Dustin J. Flanagan is an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow at the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute. He completed his PhD studies in Gastrointestinal Biology at the University of Melbourne in 2016. He leads the Cell Competition and Niche Signalling Laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. His research interests include cell competition, gastric cancer, colon cancer, Wnt signaling, stem cell biology, niche signaling, mouse models, organoids, and epithelia.