Our lab shares ‘big picture’ goals around understanding immunity at molecular, cellular and whole system level with joint NHMRC program members Nutt, Tarlinton, Corcoran and Belz labs.

We also have a strong collaboration with probability expert Professor Ken Duffy, National University of Ireland.

Team

Susanne Heinzel, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, PhD Tübingen
Koenen P, Heinzel S, Carrington EM, Happo L, Alexander WS, Zhang JG, Herold MJ, Scott CL, Lew AM, Strasser A, Hodgkin PD. Mutually exclusive regulation of T cell survival by IL-7R and antigen receptor-induced signals. Nat Commun. 2013;4:1735. PMID: 23591902.

Vanessa Bryant, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, BSc Qld PhD Syd
Bryant VL, Ma CS, Avery DT, Li Y, Good KL, Corcoran LM, de Waal Malefyt R, Tangye SG. Cytokine-mediated regulation of human B cell differentiation into Ig-secreting cells: predominant role of IL-21 produced by CXCR5+ T follicular helper cells. J Immunol. 2007 Dec 15;179(12):8180-90. PMID: 18056361.

Mark Dowling, Postdoctoral Fellow, BA BSc(Hons) PhD Qld
Dowling MR, Kan A, Heinzel S, Zhou JH, Marchingo JM, Wellard CJ, Markham JF, Hodgkin PD. Stretched cell cycle model for proliferating lymphocytes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Apr 29;111(17):6377-82. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1322420111. Epub 2014 Apr 14. PMID: 24733943

Andrey Kan, Postdoctoral Fellow, BSc PhD Melbourne

Elizabeth Kruse, Postdoctoral Fellow, BSc(Hons) Melbourne PhD Melbourne

Kim Pham, Postdoctoral Fellow, BBiomedSc(Hons) PhD Melbourne

Jessica Tempany, PhD student, BSc(Hons) UNSW

Jie Zhou, PhD student, BBiomedSc(Hons) Melbourne

Bryan Lye, MPhil student, BBiomedSc(Hons) Melbourne

Charlotte Slade, PhD student, BA BSc(Med) MBBS (Hons) UNSW PGrad Dip Clin Epi Newcastle
Slade C, Bosco J, Unglik G, Bleasel K, Nagel M, Winship I. Deficiency in complement factor B. N Engl J Med. 2013 Oct 24;369(17):1667-9. PMID: 24152280.

Robert Hennessey, Honours student

Miles Horton, Honours student

Madeleine Harris, Undergraduate student