Responding to COVID-19 with Professor Stephanie Gras and Dr Dimitra Chatzileontiadou - a podcast by Co-hosted by Sam Zawadi and Ali Asl

We are at the forefront of urgent research to resolve and respond to COVID-19 across health, business, technology, governance, sustainability and more.

Join Sam Zawadi in a conversation with two scientists about their viral and immunity research and how the scientific community is making progress on COVID-19.

Please visit http://graslab.com.au/ to find out more about the research being done on viral and structural immunity.

Twitter: @GrasLab

About Professor Stephanie Gras

Professor Stephanie Gras is a Laboratory Head and NHMRC Senior Research Fellow at Monash University within the Biomedicine Discovery Institute. She is leading a laboratory of 10 members (staff and students) working on the T cell response towards infections with a primary focus on HIV and influenza. After a PhD in France focused on Structural Biology and T cells, she moved to Australia in 2007 to join Prof. Rossjohn lab at Monash University. A decade later she has established her research group focused on the understanding of the molecular mechanism and key event of an effective immune response.

She has successfully secured funding from both the ARC and NHMRC to support her lab, as well as been awarded the Dean’s award for Early Career researcher, and the Georgina Sweet Award for Women in Quantitative Biomedical Science. Stephanie has also been extremely successful at presenting her work at both national and international meeting, as well as publishing her research in high profile journals such as Nature, Nature Immunology, Immunity and Science Immunology. Stephanie has a passion for science and love to communicate with the scientific community as well as the public about her exciting findings.

About Dr Dimitra Chatzileontiadou

Research Fellow Dimitra Chatzileontiadou is a postdoctoral research fellow working at Monash University. She graduated with a Bachelor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace in Greece, and moved to the University of Thessaly in Greece to do her Master of Science on Molecular Biology and Genetics applications – diagnostic markers, in the Structural and Functional Biochemistry laboratory, at the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology under the supervision of A/Prof. Nikolaos Balatsos. Following her Master’s degree she completed her doctoral studies in the same laboratory performing biochemical studies on human Angiogenin under the supervision of Prof. Demetrios Leonidas. She was then awarded an IKY Fellowship for excellence of postgraduate studies in Greece – SIEMENS program 2017, as a research fellow in the same laboratory. Dimitra then moved to Australia to work at Monash University, firstly within the Rossjohn Laboratory under Prof. Jamie Rossjohn, and more recently in the newly established Gras laboratory under the mentorship of A/Prof. Stephanie Gras.

Dimitra is currently working on the field of anti-viral immunity using multisdisciplinary approaches, including biochemistry, molecular biology, crystallography and cellular/functional assays, in order to understand the immune system actions when facing with viral infections.

REQUEST: COVID-19 recovered people who want to donate blood for research can contact Stephanie on s.gras@latrobe.edu.au

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