MBS Seminar - Using brain organoids model and single cell transcriptomics to understand falvivirus pathogenesis
Title: Using Brain organoids model and single cell transcriptomics to understand falvivirus pathogenesis
Speaker: Dr Andrii Slonchak, SCMB
Bio: Dr Slonchak is an ARC Future Fellow at SCMB. He is a member of Australian Infectious Diseases Research Center and a part of the Infection and Immunity research theme at SCMB. He obtained PhD in molecular biology in 2010 from the Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics in Ukraine. In 2013 he joined UQ as a postdoctoral researcher in Prof Alex Khromykh’s group studying the role of noncoding RNAs in flavivirus host interactions. In 2023 Andrii received an independent fellowship, ARC Future Fellowship, and his current research is focused using advanced transcriptomics and systems biology approach to study flavivirus pathogenesis and transmission in biologically relevant models of viral infection. His hallmarks papers in this area involve publications in Nature Communications, Science advances and Nature Microbiology. In 2024 Dr Slonchak was offered a position of team head at QIMR Berghoffer Medical Research institute and will be departing from UQ in July 2025.
About School research seminars
Seminars cover all aspects of chemistry and molecular biosciences and are delivered by visiting national and international academics. PhD completion seminars are also incorporated into the program.
Seminars are usually held in person and occasionally via zoom. All are welcome to attend.
Contacts
- Chemistry: Dr Rowan Young, Dr David Cantillo
- Molecular Biosciences: Dr Mathew Jones