Dr Celine Gubser
(03) 9035 7912 | celine.gubser@unimelb.edu.au
- Position:
- Post-doctoral Research Fellow
- Theme(s):
- Immunology, Viral Infectious Diseases, Host Pathogens Interactions
- Discipline(s):
- Discovery Research, Translational and Clinical Research
- Unit(s):
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology (DMI) , The University of Melbourne, Doherty Department
- Lab Group(s):
- Lewin Group
Dr Celine Gubser is a postdoctoral researcher in the Immunomodulation group within the laboratory of Professor Sharon Lewin. Her work focuses on novel immune modulating agents and their ability to boost HIV directed immune responses and eliminate latently infected cells. Celine accomplished her medical studies in 2011 and obtained her PhD at the University of Basel, Switzerland, in 2015 where she studied the suppressive mechanisms of regulatory T cells and T cell tolerance under Professor Ed Palmer. There after she did a 2-year assignment as registrar in internal medicine at the University hospital Basel.
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Key Achievements
Research Groups
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Celine was awarded a Novartis research fellowship in 2018 to undertake her postdoctoral studies in HIV cure research. Her PhD work helped understand the molecular mechanism underlaying the affinity threshold for negative selection.* She further studied how peripheral tolerance is maintained by regulatory T cells showing that the strength of TCR stimulation determined the efficacy of regulatory T cell mediated suppression.
*Osswald, C (maiden name)
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Lewin Group
The main focus of the Lewin group is to understand why HIV infection persists on antiretroviral therapy, to develop new strategies to eliminate latency and to define the biological determinants of immune reconstitution and factors that drive liver disease in HIV-hepatitis B virus co-infection.
Lab Team
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Dr Jasminka SterjovskiResearch Manager
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Dr Jennifer AudsleyPost-doctoral Research Fellow
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Dr Jenny AndersonPost-doctoral Research Fellow
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Dr Vanessa EvansPost-doctoral Research Fellow
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Dr Jori SymonsPost-doctoral Research Fellow
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Dr Jennifer ZerbatoPost-doctoral Research Fellow
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Ajantha RhodesLab Manager
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Surekha TennakoonResearch Officer
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Ashanti DantanarayanaResearch Assistant
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Dr Kasha SinghPhD student
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Dr Matthew PitmanPhD student
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Youry KimPhD student
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Zuwena RichardsonPhD student
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Haoming LiuPhD Student
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Rachel PascoePhD Student
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Jared SternPhD Student
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Wei ZhaoResearch Fellow
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Socheata CheaClinical Research Support and Systems Administrator
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Carolin TumpachResearch Support Officer
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