Dr Jori Symons
- Position:
- Postdoctoral researcher
- Theme(s):
- Viral Infectious Diseases, HIV
- Discipline(s):
- Genomics
- Unit(s):
- Doherty Department
- Lab Group(s):
- Lewin Group
Dr Jori Symons is a postdoctoral Research Fellow in Professor Sharon Lewin’s and Associate Professor Paul Cameron’s laboratory. Jori obtained his PhD from Utrecht University in the Netherlands in the laboratory of Dr Monique Nijhuis and Dr Anne Wensing at the University Medical Centre Utrecht in 2014. In 2015, Jori joined the Lewin/Cameron laboratory to investigate HIV integration sites.
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Key Achievements
Research Groups
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Jori has been published in several peer reviewed international journals as a first and co-author. He has presented at multiple conferences and won two young investigator awards at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.
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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 ZerbartoPost-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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