Katharina Gaus

Katharina Gaus is an Australian immunologist and molecular microscopist.

Gaus studied physics and mathematics at the University of Heidelberg, Germany and a MPhil (1996) and PhD (1999) from the University of Cambridge.^[4]

She is currently founding head of the Cellular Membrane Biology Lab, part of the Centre for Vascular Research at the University of New South Wales.^[5] A key discovery of Gaus and her team was how T-cells decide to switch on the body's immune system to attack diseases.^[6][7]

Following her studies at the University of Cambridge, Katharina joined the Cell Biology Group at the Heart Research Institute in Sydney, Australia, led by Roger Dean and Wendy Jessup.

She spent three months of 2001 at the University of Urbana-Champagne, working with Enrico Gratton. She then returned to Australia to take up an Australian Research Council postdoctoral fellowship.

In 2005 Gaus spent six months at the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, working in the laboratory of Kai Simons.

Since 2009 she has been a Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor at the National Health and Medical Research Council.

Gaus is also a Project Leader at the Australian Centre for NanoMedicine which is based at the University of New South Wales.^[8]

She is Deputy Director and a Chief Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging.^[9]

External links

• Katharina Gaus page at University of New South Wales
• Cellular Membrane Biology Lab page at University of New South Wales

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