| Emerging
Pathogens and Vaccines Program
Research Opportunities for Students
Vaccine Research
• Development of novel and improved vaccine technologies
against dengue and Japanese encephalitis (M.
Lobigs, I.
Ramshaw, C. Ranasinghe)
• Development of vaccines that elicit protective mucosal
immunity focusing on HIV (C.
Ranasinghe, I Ramshaw)
• Novel approaches to enhance vaccine efficacy through co-expression
of cytokines and co-stimulatory molecules (I.
Ramshaw, C. Ranasinghe)
• Novel vaccine candidates for immunization against respiratory
syncytial virus (M.
Regner, M.
Lobigs)
Host-Pathogen Interactions
• Immune mechanism for recovery from flavivirus infection
in mouse models of flaviviral disease (M.
Lobigs, M.
Regner)
• Role of toll-like receptors in antiviral immunity and
vaccines (I.
Ramshaw, C. Ranasinghe, M.
Regner)
• Dissecting viral immune evasion mechanisms in poxvirus
infection (M.
Regner, A.
Müllbacher, M.
Lobigs)
• How do Natural killer and cytotoxic T cells kill their
targets? (M.
Regner, A.
Müllbacher)
• Cell death induced by virus infection, and its effect
on the immune system. (M.
Regner, A.
Müllbacher)
Molecular Virology
• Studies on flavivirus replication and virulence using
‘reverse genetics’ and ‘flavivirus full-length infectious
clone’ technologies
(M
Lobigs, M. Frese)
• Understanding the molecular role of type I IFNs in anti-viral
vaccines and immune responsiveness (C.
Ranasinghe, I. Ramshaw, M. Frese)
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