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Stephen Turner studies factors that regulate virus-specific T cell recruitment, differentiation, and infection. His lab utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to examine differences in T cell receptor recognition of peptide-MHC antigens and the impacts on the development and differentiation of virus-specific T cell responses. He is interested in the factors that shape transcriptional and epigenetic signatures that define virus-specific T cell differentiation from naive states to effector memory populations. The lab employs a combination of ChIP-Seq, RNA-Seq, bioinformatics, systems biology, inducible shRNA knockdown, retroviral bone-marrow transduction, and gene-deficient mouse models to investigate promoter-enhancer interactions and the molecular mechanisms regulating transcriptional control of T cell effector function, highlighting unique and shared key effector genes. His work contributes to the identification of key immune correlates of protective immunity and aims to improve immunotherapies for infectious and autoimmune diseases.
Monash University • Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Conducting research on virus-specific T cell responses and immunological memory.
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