Kennedy Institute studentship

DPhil in Cancer Science

I was a Senior Research Fellow of the Kennedy Trust of Rheumatology Research (KTRR), and now a Professor of Immunology at the University of Oxford.

My previous research focused on the characterization of relevant cellular and molecular events regulating the initiation of immune responses. I completed my Ph.D. under the supervision of Jacques Nunes and Daniel Olive at the University of the Mediterranean, Marseille, France, focusing on the negative regulation of primary and leukemic T cell activation. I undertook postdoctoral training at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam with John Collard, where I studied polarity proteins and T cell migration. I then moved on to the laboratory of Matthew Krummel at UCSF, San Francisco, USA, where I continued to work on the molecular mechanism of T cell migration in vivo using 2-photon microscopy. In addition, I developed a broader interest in the spatio-temporal behaviour of T cells during infection and vaccination. In particular, I described a specific period during which T cells directly communicate to control each other's fate. I joined the Kennedy Institute in June 2016, where I am still exploring the dynamic of T cell immune responses.