Dr Tatyana Chtanova
Senior Research Officer, Associate Group Leader, Immunology Research Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Senior Lecturer (conjoint appointment), The University of New South Wales
Email: t.chtanova 'at' garvan.org.au
Research Group: Immunobiology of Cancer
Tatyana returned to the Garvan institute and now leads her group which investigates the role of the immune system in cancer using a combination of in vivo imaging and photoconvertible transgenic mice.
Education and Research
2005 - 2009 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA (Human Frontier Science Program Postdoctoral Fellow)
2001 - 2005 PhD University of New South Wales, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences
1999 Honors (1st Class) in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of New South Wales
1998 B.Sc. Advanced Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Awards and Honours
2010 NHMRC Career Development Award
2010 Human Frontier Science Program Career Development Award
2009 Cancer Institute NSW Career Development Award
2008 Best Short Talk Award at FASEB Biology of the Immune System Summer conference
2005 Human Frontier Science Program Long-Term Fellowship
2001-2004 University Postgraduate Research Scholarship – University of New South Wales
2004 Keystone Symposia Travel Scholarship
2001-2003 Australian Co-operative Research Center for Asthma scholarship
2001 Australian Asthma Foundation Scholarship
Publications
Phan TG and Chtanova T. 2010 Lymphocyte activation - Border patrol: SCS macrophages activate iNKT cells too. Immunology and Cell Biology 88(6):619-21.
Chtanova T, Han S-J, Schaeffer M, van Dooren G, Herzmark P, Striepen B, and Robey EA. 2009. Dynamics of T cell, antigen presenting cell, and pathogen interactions during recall responses in the lymph node. Immunity 31(2):342-55.
Schaeffer M, Han S-J, Chtanova T, van Dooren G, Herzmark P, Chen Y, Roysam B, Striepen B, and Robey EA. 2009. Dynamic imaging of T cell - parasite interactions in the brains of mice chronically infected with Toxoplasma gondi. J Immunol. 182:6379
Chtanova T, Schaeffer M, Han S-J, van Dooren G, Striepen B, Herzmark P, Camfield K, Nollmann M, Aaron H, and Robey EA. 2008. Dynamics of neutrophil migration in lymph nodes during Toxoplasma gondii infection. Immunity 29:487
Ladi E, Schwickert TA, Chtanova T, Chen Y, Herzmark P, Yin X, Aaron H, Chan SW, Lipp M, Roysam B, Robey EA. 2008. Thymocyte-dendritic cell interactions near sources of CCR7 ligands in the thymic cortex. J Immunol 181:7014
Liu SM, Xavier R, Good KL, Chtanova T, Newton R, Sisavanh M, Zimmer S, Deng C, Silva DG, Frost MJ, Tangye SG, Rolph MS, Mackay CR. 2006. Immune cell transcriptome datasets reveal novel leukocyte subset-specific genes and genes associated with allergic processes. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 118(2):496.
Ladi E, Chtanova T, Yin X, Robey EA. 2006. Thymic microenvironments for T cell differentiation and selection. Nat Immunol. 7(4):338. Review.
Yin X, Ladi E, Chtanova T, Robey EA. 2006.Thymocyte motility: mutants, movies and migration patterns. Curr Opin Immunol. 18(2):191. Review.
Chtanova T, Newton R, Liu SM, Weininger L, Young TR, Silva DG, Bertoni F, Rinaldi A, Chappaz S, Sallusto F, Rolph MS, Mackay CR. 2005. Identification of T cell-restricted genes, and signatures for different T cell responses, using a comprehensive collection of microarray datasets. J Immunol. 175:7837.
Chtanova T, Tangye SG, Newton RA, Frank N, Hodge MR, Rolph MS, Mackay CR. 2004. T follicular helper cells express a distinctive transcriptional profile, reflecting their role as non-Th1/Th2 effector cells that provide help for B cells. J Immunol 173:68.
Ng LG, Sutherland APR, Newton RA, Qian F, Cachero TG, Scott M, Thompson JS, Wheway J, Chtanova T, Xin C, Groom J, Tangye SG, Kalled SL, Mackay F, Mackay CR. 2004. BAFF-R is the principal BAFF receptor facilitating BAFF co-stimulation of B and T cells. J Immunol 174:807.
Chtanova T, and Mackay CR. 2001. T cell effector subsets: extending the Th1/Th2 paradigm. Adv Immunol 78:233. Review.
Chtanova T, Kemp RA, Sutherland AP, Ronchese F, Mackay CR. 2001. Gene microarrays reveal extensive differential gene expression in both CD4+ and CD8+ type 1 and type 2 T cells. J Immunol 167:3057.
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