Dr Vanessa Evans
(03) 8344 3838 | [email protected]
- Position:
- Post-doctoral Researcher
- Theme(s):
- Host Pathogens Interactions , Immunology, Viral Infectious Diseases, HIV
- Discipline(s):
- Translational and Clinical Research
- Unit(s):
- Doherty Department
- Lab Group(s):
- Lewin/Cameron Group
Dr Vanessa Evans is a postdoctoral researcher and head of the Dendritic Cell (DC)/ Immunomodulation group within the laboratory of Professor Sharon Lewin and Associate Professor Paul Cameron. She was awarded her PhD at Monash University in 2011 on ‘DC and T cell interactions: Their role in HIV-1 spread and latency. Vanessa has collaborated with a number of groups, which has included spending time within the laboratories of Professor Rafick Sékaly, at the University of Montreal and at the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute (VGTI), Florida.
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Key Achievements
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Vanessa has presented her work extensively both nationally and internationally, resulting in a number of scholarships and awards. She has extensive experience in a wide range of techniques including primary cell isolation of dendritic cell populations, flow cytometry, and HIV production and infection. Her PhD led to several novel findings including the mechanism of how some strains of HIV infect the thymus via transfer of the virus from thymic DC, and the development of a novel, laboratory-based model demonstrating a role for DC in the establishment of HIV latency.
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Lewin/Cameron Group
The main focus of the Lewin-Cameron laboratory 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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Associate Professor Paul CameronJoint Lab head
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Dr Jasminka SterjovskiResearch Manager
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Julia StoutProject 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 Renee van de SluisPost-doctoral Research Fellow
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Dr Jori SymonsPost-doctoral Research Fellow
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Dr Michael RochePost-doctoral 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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Simin RezaeiPhD student
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Dr Kasha SinghPhD student
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Talia MotaPhD student
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Dr Michelle YongPhD 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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Ashish NairCasual RA
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Haoming LiuStudent
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Wei ZhaoResearch Fellow
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Jared SternHonours Student
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