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Professor, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University

Professor Kim Jacobson is an expert in understanding how we form immunity to pathogens. In particular, her research focuses on why immune memory is dysfunctional in chronic viral infections. She is head of the B cells, Antibody, Memory laboratory at Monash University, a Bellberry-Viertel Fellow and a 2016 Young Tall Poppy Science Award recipient.

Prof Jacobson received her PhD from University of Sydney, before undertaking postdoctoral research as a NHMRC CJ Martin Fellow at Yale University in the USA and at WEHI in Australian.

Experience

  • 2015–present
    Senior Research Fellow and Laboratory Head, Monash University
  • 2010–2015
    Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
  • 2007–2010
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University

Education

  • 2007 
    University of Sydney, PhD

Publications

  • 2015
    c-Myb is required for plasma cell migration to bone marrow after immunization or infection, J Exp Med
  • 2014
    Regulation of germinal center responses and B-cell memory by the chromatin modifier MOZ, PNAS
  • 2013
    Diversity among memory B cells: origin, consequences, and utility, Science
  • 2010
    PD-1 regulates germinal center B cell survival and the formation and affinity of long-lived plasma cells, Nat Immunol

Professional Memberships

  • Australasian Society for Immunology

Honours

2016 VIC Young Tall Poppy Science Award recipient