Sheila Donnelly
Assistant Professor
Parasites, Microbes and Host Immunity
University of Technology Sydney
Australia
Biography
A Associate Professor, within the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) Faculty of Science, Sheila is course co-ordinator of Biotechnology and a member of the ithree institute (previously the Institute for the Biotechnology of Infectious Diseases (IBID). Dr Donnelly has a degree in Microbiology from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and a PhD in Virology from the same university. Her early postdoctoral work at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, focused primarily on the neuro-immunological response to vaccination. During this time, she developed and published the details of a murine model, which reported a definitive link between administration of whole cell vaccines and the induction of seizure behaviour.
Research Interest
Host-Pathogen interactions Therapeutic potential of novel immunomodulators secreted by pathogens Role of macrophages in the regulation of immune responses
