Dr Susan Christo obtained her PhD at the University of South Australia in 2015 before joining the laboratory of Professor Laura Mackay at the Doherty Institute in 2016. Susan has an interest in T cell biology and is currently working on identifying key factors that regulate the phenotype, differentiation and survival of tissue-resident memory T cell in a range of settings such as cancer. Susan’s work hopes to instruct the design of T cell based immunotherapies aimed at long-term protection in a site-specific manner.
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Publications
Research Groups
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Laura Mackay Group
The Mackay Group studies memory T cell responses, with a focus on the signals that control tissue-resident memory T cell differentiation, and a view to harness these cells to develop new treatments against infection, cancer and autoimmune conditions.
Lab Team
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Dr Thomas Burn
Research Officer
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ARC DECRA Research Fellow
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Dr Raissa Fonseca
ARC DECRA Research Fellow
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Dr Luke Gandolfo
Research Officer (Computational Biology)
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Dr Claire Gordon
NHMRC Research Fellow and Infectious Diseases Physician, Austin Health
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Dr Andrea Nguyen
Research Officer
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Dr Kelly Paton
Research Officer
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Dr Tobias Poch
DFG Walter Benjamin Programme Fellow
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Dr Natasha Zamudio
Laboratory Manager
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Brooke Davies
Research Assistant
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Keely McDonald
Research Assistant
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Allison Clatch
PhD Candidate
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James Dosser
PhD Candidate
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Andreas Obers
PhD Candidate
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Maleika Osman
PhD Candidate
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Justine Seow
PhD Candidate
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Joey Kuai
Masters Student
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Rachel Evans
Honours Student
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Lutfi Huq
American Australian Association Visiting Scholar
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