Dr. Audrey Gérard

Biography

Audrey Gérard is a Professor of Immunology and a Senior Research Fellow at the Kennedy Trust Rheumatology Research (KTRR), University of Oxford. Her research is focused on the characterization of relevant cellular and molecular events that regulate the initiation of immune responses. She completed her Ph.D. under the supervision of Jacques Nunes and Daniel Olive at the University of the Mediterranean in Marseille, France, emphasizing negative regulation of primary leukemic T cell activation. Following her doctoral studies, she undertook postdoctoral training at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam with John Collard, where she studied polarity proteins involved in T cell migration. Subsequently, she moved to the laboratory of Matthew Krummel at UCSF, San Francisco, USA, where she continued research on the molecular mechanisms of T cell migration in vivo using 2-photon microscopy. Her research interests expanded to include the spatio-temporal behavior of T cells during infection and vaccination, particularly focusing on the factors that influence T cell fate communication. Audrey joined the Kennedy Institute in June 2016, where she explores dynamic T cell immune responses.

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