Location:
Webinar via Microsoft Teams Live Event
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Cost
Free
Contact for enquiries
Rata Joseph, +61 (2) 9385 0900 or recpt@kirby.unsw.edu.au
Kirby Institute Seminar Series presents
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Ms Katherine Ognenovska Katherine Ognenovska is a PhD student with the Kirby Institute’s Immunovirology and Pathogenesis Program. Her thesis explores the fundamental mechanisms of epigenetic silencing, with the hope of applying them to future gene therapeutics.
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Ms Vennila Mathivanan Vennila Mathivanan is a PhD student with the Kirby Institute's Immunovirology and Pathogenesis Program. She recently submitted her PhD thesis, which focused on lentiviral gene delivery into resting T-cells. Her research interests include lentiviral vectors and lentiviral gene therapy, as well as HIV envelope glycoproteins and their CD4 independence. |
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Abstracts
Elucidating the Mechanisms of RNA-Induced Transcriptional Silencing Machinery in a HIV-1 Therapeutic
Ms Katherine Ognenovska
Epigenetic silencing is an evolutionarily conserved process that can be induced by synthetic RNA. It offers potent and targeted suppression of HIV-1. However, the mechanisms underlying human epigenetic silencing are poorly understood. To harness the pathway to its full potential, and help develop a powerful HIV-1 therapeutic, we set out to identify the silencing machinery.
Lentiviral System for Gene Delivery into Resting T-cells
Ms Vennila Mathivanan
Current gene delivery systems suffer from poor genetic delivery into resting T-cells and requires multiple viral challenges, activation and expansion of cells ex vivo. However, this leads to lower engraftment, proliferative potential and potency. Vennila will present her findings towards a viable platform to build towards the generation of resting T-cell product for use in vivo.
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