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Meet the 2024 ICIS-Luminex John R. Kettman Award Winner: Laura K. Mackay, Ph.D.

September 30, 2024

Meet Laura Mackay, Ph.D., Professor at The University of Melbourne and Immunology Theme Lead at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Australia. She completed her Ph.D. in 2009 under the supervision of Professor Alan Rickinson at The University of Birmingham (UK), and postdoctoral training (2009-2015) with Professor Francis Carbone at The University of Melbourne. [READ MORE]

Mark Travis
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Member Highlight Interview with Mark Travis, Ph.D.

March 4, 2024

Mark Travis (Univ. of Manchester) is not an immunologist by training…. I did my BSc in Biochemistry and Genetics at Lancaster University, then a PhD in Protein Biochemistry at the University of Manchester, working on how integrins bind to ligands and signal. I then did my post-doc at UCSF, where I started working on integrins that bind and activate the cytokine TGF-beta. I made a conditional knockout mouse while I was there that got an intestinal inflammation phenotype, so I quickly morphed into becoming a mucosal immunologist…. which I have been ever since. [READ MORE]