Professor Sammy Bedoui heads a laboratory in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and is a lead for the Discovery Science Cross-Cutting Discipline at the Doherty Institute. Sammy has a medical degree from the Hannover Medical School in Germany. His research examines how dendritic cells and T cells interact during infections, with a particular interest in deciphering how specific innate signals shape these interactions. Sammy teaches Immunology to undergraduate students and leads an international PhD student exchange program with the University of Bonn in Germany. Sammy has previously held positions at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, the National Institute of Neuroscience in Tokyo and the Hannover Medical School.