Danny Hatters is interested in protein folding, misfolding and developing approaches to study how this process impacts on cell biology and disease. He completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2002. He then did a post doc at the Gladstone Institutes/University of California, San Francisco under the mentorship of Dr Karl Weisgraber for 5 years until 2007. There he studied how three variants of apolipoprotein E, apoE2, apoE3 and apoE4 differ in their conformation and biophysical properties as a basis for understanding the mechanisms underlying the elevated risk that the apoE4 isoform confers for Alzheimer's disease. In April 2007, he returned to Melbourne to take up a CR Roper Fellowship position in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. In 2009 he was awarded the Grimwade Fellowship to continue developing his own research program focusing on how protein conformations lead to cellular dysfunction and disease. In 2012 he was appointed to Faculty Teaching and Research staff and was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship.