A/Prof Mandvi Bharadwaj
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Melbourne
mandvi@unimelb.edu.au
Research Activities
Research is primarily focussed on two major areas-(1) Immunity to Hepatitis C virus infection
(2) MHC class-I associated drug hypersensitivities
Collaborative research includes-
Biochemistry and cell biology of Antigen presentation
Structural basis of T cell recognition
Recognition of CD1d-lipid-antigen by the semi-invariant NKT T-cell receptor
Vaccine development
Techniques/Expertise
Cellular immunity, Viral immunology and Vaccine development.Collaborations
Professor J McCluskey - Dept of Microbiology and Immunology, University of MelbourneProf David Jackson & Prof Dale Godfrey- Microbiology & Immunology, Univ of Melbourne
Dr Scott Bowden- Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL)
Dr Patricia Yotnda- Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Dr Brian Tait, Ms Rhonda Holdsworth and Dr Mary Diviney- Victorian Transplantation and Immunogenetics Service (VTIS)
Prof Jamie Rossjohn
A/Prof Margaret Hellard
A/Prof Heidi Drummer- Burnet Institute
A/Prof Katherine Kedzierska- University of Melbourne
Prof Denis Moss, Prof R Khanna- QIMR
