Associate Professor Ashraful Haque – Using single-cell genomics to map cellular differentiation of CD4+ T cells in vivo

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Event date: 
Tuesday, 30 July 2019 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Berg Family Foundation Seminar Room, Level 6, Wallace Wurth Building, Kensington Campus, UNSW Sydney

Kirby Institute Seminar Series presents

Associate Professor Ashraful Haque

Associate Professor Ashraful Haque

Group Leader, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

Since 2017, Ashraful Haque has been a Group Leader at QIMR Berghofer. He completed his PhD in Salmonella pathogenesis with Gordon Dougan at Imperial College in 2002. He completed an immunology post-doc at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine with Greg Bancroft. He moved to Australia in 2005 to study protozoan parasite infection with Chris Engwerda. He was awarded his first NHMRC CIA grant in 2010.

Twitter: @DrAshHaque

Abstract

My group is interested in how immune cells change from one state into another during an immune response. For example, CD4+ T cells can modify themselves to preserve memories of previous infections. To map this process at genome scale we employed single-cell RNA-seq, single-cell ATAC-seq and computational modelling in murine models of Plasmodium infection and allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.

Event Type: 
Seminar
Contact for inquiries: 
Rata Joseph, +61 (2) 9385 0900 or recpt@kirby.unsw.edu.au
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