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 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
Publications
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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 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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