PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Feb 2010 - present: Imperial College London, Imaging immune cell biology Group; supervisor Professor Daniel
Davis.
Understanding and manipulating Antibody Dependent Cell Cytotoxicity (ADCC) by human Natural Killer (NK)
cells.
- Nov 2006 - Dec 2009: Institut Pasteur, Virus and Immunity Unit; supervisor: Prof. Olivier Schwartz (Paris, France):
Modifications of T cell phenotype upon HIV infection (as the main investigator together with C. Nobile)
Mechanisms of HIV cell-to-cell spread through polysynapses and filopodia (as the main investigator)
Effects of miRNA expression on HIV replication and cell-to-cell spread (collaboration with the group of M. Benkirane, CNRS, Montpellier)
Characterization of re-emerging chikungunia virus (as a collaborator)
- 2004 - 2006: Jagiellonian University; project supervisor: Prof. Józef Dulak (Krakow, Poland).Effect
of HIF-1 stabilization on heme oxygenase expression and production of angiogenic factors in endothelial cells:
opposite regulation of IL-8 and VEGF
- 2005: Erasmus scholarship, CNRS, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire; project supervisor: Dr. Claudine
Kieda (Orléans, France).
HO-1 in endothelial cell reaction to hypoxia: analysis of its gene expression, its relation to angiogenesis
induction and its monitoring by oxygen delivering agents.