Women Speakers Database
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Name
Jo Kirman -
Email
Jo.kirman@otago.ac.nz -
Country/Region
New Zealand -
Institute
University of Otago -
Career Stage
Tenured Faculty -
Website
https://micro.otago.ac.nz/our-people/teaching-research-and-support/joanna-kirman/ -
Research Interests
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Profile
Jo Kirman is Associate Professor in immunology at the University of Otago. Jo completed her PhD thesis at the Malaghan Institute, in the laboratory of Prof Graham Le Gros. She was awarded a Fogarty Postdoctoral Fellowship where she undertook research on tuberculosis vaccine development at the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health, USA in the laboratory of Dr Bob Seder. In 2002 Jo returned to the Malaghan Institute to lead the Infectious Diseases group as a Sir Charles Hercus Research Fellow and from 2009-2012 as the Wellington Medical Research Foundation Malaghan Haematology Research Fellow. In 2012 Jo joined the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Otago, where her research is focused on how the BCG vaccine for tuberculosis enhances innate immune responses that can protect against tuberculosis and whether these innate immune responses can exhibit features of immunological memory.