Muniba Bashir is a PhD candidate at the School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia under the supervision of Dr Zhaoyu Li, A/Prof Fiona Pixley and A/Prof Andrew Redfern. Her areas of interest are (1) identifying immune cells involved in the promotion or suppression of mammary tumorigenesis (2) investigating the impact of specific immune cells on epigenetic changes occurring during mammary tumorigenesis (3) developing cell-free epigenetic biomarkers of histone modifications for breast cancer risk prediction, and early diagnosis. Overall, her research will not only provide a better understanding of epigenetic changes regulated by immune cells during mammary tumorigenesis but also will help to further pave the road for the application of novel epigenetic biomarkers for breast cancer risk prediction, and early diagnosis.