Isabelle Foo
isabellefjh.bsky.social
Isabelle Foo
@isabellefjh.bsky.social
Postdoc at The Peter Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne | Studying viral immunology, influenza, arbovirus and viral co-infection | she/her | 🇲🇾 in 🇦🇺
https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=0MxsfPQAAAAJ&hl=en
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Why do some people get seriously ill while others don't? Our new study in @pnas.org investigated how a population of memory T cells influence #COVID severity

Read the paper: go.unimelb.edu.au/4zkp
Or our article here: go.unimelb.edu.au/2zkp

@katherinekedz.bsky.social @thedohertyinst.bsky.social
HLA-B*15:01-positive severe COVID-19 patients lack CD8+ T cell pools with highly expanded public clonotypes | PNAS
Understanding host factors driving asymptomatic versus severe disease outcomes is of key importance if we are to control emerging and re-emerging v...
go.unimelb.edu.au
September 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Your immune system gradually loses it top team players when we get older 👱➡️👵
Our study in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social investigates how long good immune cells stay around – a 🧵⬇️ go.unimelb.edu.au/4sep
@katherinekedz.bsky.social @thedohertyinst.bsky.social #Influenza #AgingResearch #Immunity #TCR
April 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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‼️Preprint alert‼️ This is a study arising from my PhD thesis where we delve into the world of NK cells and pregnancy 🤰. Really glad to see it online and keen to hear any thoughts or feedback #immunosky
Single-cell immune profiling of third trimester pregnancies defines importance of chemokine receptors and prevalence of CMV-induced NK cells in the periphery and decidua https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.24.25324489v1
March 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM