Gustavo Rossi and Timothy McCulloch from the Guimaraes Lab
Guest speakers Gustavo Rossi and Timothy McCulloch from the Guimaraes Lab at UQDI.
Gustavo will be presenting Understanding cancer and engineering NK cells for personalised immune-cellular therapeutics.
Timothy will be presenting Understanding immunosuppression, and development of immunotherapeutic interventions for persistent bacterial infections.
TRI Auditorium and via Zoom: https://uqz.zoom.us/j/88411699543
Email Jessica Iannotti for the Zoom password.
Gustavo’s Bio: I completed my PhD in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program at the Federal University of Parana (UFPR – Curitiba, Brazil). My PhD research focused on developing new treatments based on chemically modified heparins for preventing melanoma metastatic spread in different experimental models. My projects now take advantage of multi-disciplinary approaches combining cutting edge molecular/immune/stem cell biology and systems biology to build on and create innovative solutions for complex clinical challenges.
Timothy’s Bio: I graduated from the University of Otago in New Zealand in 2014 with a BSc with Honours and MSc majoring in Immunology. I then moved to Melbourne (2014 to 2019) to work as a Flow Cytometry technician at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, where I acquired extensive experience in complex FACS sorting and multi-parametric analysis in multiple flow cytometry platforms. At the end of 2019, I moved to UQDI’s Translational Innate Immunotherapy Laboratory (TI2, headed by Dr. Fernando Guimaraes) to begin my PhD, where we take advantage in the parallels between cancer and infection-mediated immunosuppression. Specifically, I focus in discovering new potential immunotherapeutic interventions to treat persistent bacterial infections.