Dr Astrid Magenau

After graduation from the University of Konstanz in Germany with a MSc in Immunology, Dr Astrid Magenau moved to Sydney to embark on a PhD at the Centre for Vascular Research at UNSW. During her PhD she focused on unravelling the role of membrane order and lipid rafts during phagocytosis by macrophages, using advanced imaging techniques.

Since the laboratory Astrid was working in was a leader in the field of advanced microscopy methods, she decided to follow up the PhD with a post-doctoral position. During this time she contributed to the development and establishment of fluorescence-based super-resolution microscopy and used this technique to investigate the role of lipid membrane anchors in protein targeting to ordered domains in the cell membrane. At Garvan, Astrid joined Professor Paul Timpson’s Invasion and Metastasis Lab to apply advanced imaging techniques to the study of cancer invasion and metastasis.