Women Speakers Database
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Name
Emily Edwards -
Email
Emily.Edwards@monash.edu -
Country/Region
Australia -
Institute
Monash University -
Career Stage
Post-doctoral Researcher -
Website
https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/emily-edwards -
Research Interests
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Profile
Emily undertook her PhD in Prof. Linda Wooldridge’s laboratory at Cardiff University where she investigated the impact of peptide modification on the priming of antigen-specific CD8 T cells. Emily moved to Australia in 2011 to join Prof. Rajiv Khanna’s laboratory at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane where she investigated the characteristics of cytomegalovirus-specific CD4 T cells. In 2014, Emily moved to Sydney to join Prof. Stuart Tangye’s laboratory. Here Emily investigated how genetic mutations cause inefficient control of Epstein-Barr Virus in Primary Immunodeficient patients primarily focusing on the CD8 T cell response. This included an international collaboration responsible for the first description of CD70-deficiency. In 2018, Emily joined the laboratory of A/Prof Menno van Zelm. Emily’s work continues to focus on investigating the impact of genetic mutations on immune cell differentiation and function in patients with primary immunodeficiencies.