Distinguished Professor Ian Paulsen is a world leader in microbiology and a pioneer in microbial genomics. Paulsen is acknowledged for his high impact and transformational science in the fields of multidrug efflux pumps, synthetic biology, transcriptomics, membrane transport, bioinformatics, systems biology, metagenomics, environmental microbiology and bacterial drug resistance. His work in leading the Australian component of the international Yeast 2.0 project helped establish Macquarie University as a global leader in synthetic biology.