Matthew Worley graduated from ANU with Bachelor of Biotechnology with honours where he investigated antibody responses to novel HIV vaccines in mice. He is now a PhD Student in Stephen Kent’s laboratory at the Peter Doherty Institute in Melbourne. He is currently investigating HIV specific antibody dependent neutrophil effector functions.

Ms Sreeja Roy is a PhD candidate in the Mucosal Vaccine Lab, JCSMR, ANU. She received BSc Biotechnology (Hons) at the JCSMR, ANU followed by MSc in Infection Biology at The Universität zu Lübeck, Germany. She also worked in Autoimmune diagnostics at Euroimmun Diagnostika AG, Germany before returning to Australia.

Patricia Price is an immunologist based at Curtin University in Perth. For over 10 years she has managed clinical research projects at University of Indonesia in Jakarta. This study is part of the JakCCANDO project monitoring health and immunological recovery in HIV patients beginning ART.

Jessica Gaff is a PhD student at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia and is passionate about her research in HIV associated sensory neuropathy. Jessica hopes to elucidate the mechanisms behind the debilitating disease which may allow better management, treatment or even prevention of this neurological complication

John Zaunders has studied the effect of HIV-1 infection on subsets of CD4 T cells, as a Senior Scientist, for over 20 years

My research has provided significant fundamental insight in the field of T cell immunity. I have established myself as a well-regarded structural immunologist. My passion is to understand how the immune system works, especially in the case of viral infections such as HIV.