Published May 26 2020

Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Where to next?

Stephen
Turner
Professor, Microbiology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute
Meredith o'keeffe
Associate Professor (Research), Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Mireille lahoud
Associate Professor (Research), Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Kylie wagstaff
Senior Research Fellow, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

COVID-19 changed the world in a matter of months. Today, as society slowly crawls back to a sense of normalcy, we’ve realised some things will never be the same again. The immediate concern is a medical one, and how we can ensure the safety of our communities. And so, the burning question remains: Where to from here?  

In this special A Different Lens episode, recorded live on 26 May 2020, a panel of academics from the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute discusses how the world moves forward with COVID-19 –from vaccine development and public health policy, to the future of healthcare, and the importance of how research in shaping tomorrow.

If you didn't get the chance to watch the live event, or you want to watch it again please find a recording of the event below.

 

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About the Authors

  • Stephen turner

    Professor, Microbiology, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute

    Stephen studies factors that regulate virus-specific T cell recruitment and differentiation after infection. His lab uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine how differences in T cell receptor recognition of peptide-MHC antigens impacts development and differentiation of virus-specific T cell responses. He is also interested in factors that shape the transcriptional and epigenetic signatures that define virus-specific T cell differentiation from the naive state into both the effector and memory populations.

  • Meredith o'keeffe

    Associate Professor (Research), Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute

    Meredith is an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Laboratory of Dendritic Cell Driven Immunity in Health and Disease. She received her PhD from Monash in 1998 and spent the next 16 years investigating dendritic cell biology, with positions at WEHI, Melbourne, Bavarian-Nordic GmbH, Munich, Germany and the Burnet Institute, Melbourne. Meredith's current research interests include investigating the function of dendritic cells in Lupus disease and malaria infection and examining the development and function of dendritic cells in Myelodysplasia.

  • Mireille lahoud

    Associate Professor (Research), Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute

    Associate Professor Mireille Lahoud heads a research group focussed on Dendritic Cell Receptors, their role in pattern recognition and their application for immune modulation.

  • Kylie wagstaff

    Senior Research Fellow, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute

    Kylie's research over the last 18 years has focused on the regulation of transport into and out of the eukaryotic cell nucleus, and how this relates to viral disease, cancer and development. Her awards and prizes include National Breast Cancer Foundation, Career Development Fellowship(2017), the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) Young Scientist Program Prize (2009) and the Caroline Chisholm award for service (2015).

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