Mintern laboratory: Vaccine biology

Researcher

Head of Laboratory Dr Justine Mintern
jmintern@unimelb.edu.au

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+61 03 8344-2976

Research Overview

Dr Mintern is a Senior Lecturer and Laboratory Head in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She investigates mechanisms of vaccine biology.

Advancing vaccine design is important for the treatment and prevention of infectious disease and cancer. We investigate the fundamental cell biology of how an immune response begins and apply innovative bioengineered tools to probe mechanisms of vaccine biology.

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The projects use a wide range of experimental approaches including:

application of novel DNA-based fluorescent probes
immunofluorescent microscopy
flow cytometry
CRISPR-cas9
proteomics
experimental models of inflammation, infection and cancer

For more information about the Mintern laboratory, please download this information sheet (PDF 9.7 MB).

Staff

Haiyin Liu receiving the award for Best 2nd year PhD poster at the 2016 ASMR Victorian Student Research Symposium

Research staff

Dr Justine Mintern, Group Leader
Gerry Healey, Laboratory Manager
Patrick Schriek, PhD student
Haiyin Liu, PhD student
Alan Ching, PhD student
Ilknur Spring, PhD student
Hayley Cron, Honours student
Victor Makota, Honours student

Charlee Bickers presenting her talk at the 2016 ASMR Victorian Student Research Symposium. Charlee was awarded the prize for Best Honours talk.

Patrick Schriek competing in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 3MT competition.

Mintern lab members enjoying a game of bubble soccer

Collaborators

Dr Angus Johnston, Monash University
Dr Georgina Such, University of Melbourne
Professor Robert Parton, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
Dr Elodie Segura, Curie Institut
Professor Patrick Reading, World Health Organisation, University of Melbourne
Dr Anne Verhagen, CSL
Professor Steve Downer, CSL