Discoveries, awards and other news from the lab

We are beyond thrilled to share the news that Larisa Labzin has been awarded an ARC Future Fellowship with her project titled How innate immune signalling dictates avian susceptibility to viruses!!! Larisa is a truly dese..

Grace Lawrence's PhD was conferred this week! Her thesis is titled "Mitochondrial Dynamics and the NLRP3 Inflammasome". A huge congratulations on officially becoming a doctor!..

This week the Inflammasome Lab celebrated the conferral of Mark Milner's thesis titled "Molecular mechanisms of inflammasome-driven Alzheimer's disease"...

Congratulations to the nominees and award winners from the Schroder Group for the 2022 IMB Impact Awards.    Kate Schroder..

Inflammasome Lab group leader Kate Schroder is a well-deserved Winner of the Excellence in Science Award category in the 2022 Women in Technology (WiT) Awards...

Congratulations to Larisa Labzin, winner of the 2022 Queensland Young Tall Poppy Science Awards, an award recognising researchers who demonstrate scientific excellence and who communicate their science to the wider public. ..

Joanna Crawford is a well-deserved winner of IMB's Unsung Hero award, an award celebrating the everyday actions and goodwill that enhance and contribute to a culture of teamwork and collaboration within IMB.  ..

The University of Queensland was recently recognised with a prestigious Pride in Diversity national award for our commitment to inclusivity and support for LGBTQIA+ communities...

This week we celebrated Dr Caroline Holley's PhD graduation for her thesis titled “The cell biology of pyroptosis“...

Congratulations to the Inflammasome Lab’s 2021 Honours students, Jared Coombs and Tyron Esposito for their outstanding research and achievements this year, both graduating with Class I Honours!   ..

Congratulations to Inflammasome Lab members Caroline Holley, Kate Schroder and Mark Milner for being recognised in the 2021 IMB Impact Awards...

The annual end of year Christmas Party was held to celebrate the groups achievements, while eating some tasty food!..

2022 NHMRC Synergy Grant "Mining the host-pathogen interface to deliver a drug pipeline for treating intractable and emerging infections"..

2022 NHMRC Investigator Grant Inflammation drives many devastating human diseases, and there are currently no effective treatments for many such diseases...

The Inflammasome lab congratulates Rebecca Coll, a past member of our lab, for winning the ICIS New Investigator Award!  ..

Congratulations to Inflammasome Lab postdoctoral researcher, Stefan Emming, whose PhD research was honoured with the Università della Svizzera italiana prize for the best original publication in 2020...

Kate Schroder is a new committee member on the IMB Engagement and Philanthropy Board...

The Inflammasome Lab is thrilled to welcome our newest PhD student Xiaohui Wang. Xiaohui joins as part of the Labzin Team. Welcome Xiaohui!  ..

The Inflammasome lab recently returned from a two-day lab retreat...

The Inflammasome Lab is excited to welcome Jo Crawford to the team as a Senior Researcher! Jo brings a wealth of expertise in molecular biology, genetics, and genomics to the Inflammasome Lab team...

This month we celebrated Amy Chan's PhD graduation! Dr Chan will continue her project as a post-doc in the lab, before seeking new and exciting opportunities in the future.  ..

The Inflammasome Lab is excited to welcome Tyron Esposito to the group. Tyron joins the Lab as an honours student within the Labzin Team. Welcome Tyron!  ..

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The Inflammasome Lab is very happy to announce that Jared Coombs is joining the group this year as an honours student. Welcome Jared!  ..

Caroline Holley and Kate Schroder from the Inflammasome Lab published a review in Clinical and Translational Immunology this month highlighting the importance of a holistic approach to investigations of NLRP3 activation b..

Sabrina Sofia Burgener and Kate Schroder from the Inflammasome Lab have published a review in the Journal of Experimental Medicine this month on how the placenta is a dynamic immunological organ.  ..

This week the Inflammasome Lab held our yearly Christmas Party with great food and conversation plus a cheeky game of secret santa! ..

Volunteering, public engagement and an excellent PhD thesis are factors contributing to Amy’s selection as a UQ Future Leader...

Amy Chan and Kate Schroder from the Inflammasome Lab provided an updated view of inflammasome signaling; mechanisms underpinning IL-1α,IL-1β, IL-18, and IL-37maturation and release; and the functions of these cytokines in protective and pathologic..

We are thrilled to share the news that our Amy was awarded her PhD last week, and is now Dr Amy Chan!  ..

The Inflammasome Lab is thrilled to have contributed to the development NLRP3 inhibitors, now under translation to the clinic by Roche for treatment of inflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases...

Former Inflammasome lab member Kaiwen Chen is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the National University of Singapore...

The Inflammasome lab is thrilled to share the news that one of the pioneer members of our lab, Leonhard Heinz, is starting a new position as Principal Investigator at Medical University of Vienna, Division of Rheumatology...

The Inflammasome lab is thrilled that NLRP3 inflammasome inhibitors are now in Phase II in clinical trials with Inflazome...

Read here - Working from home: the superpower to defeating COVID-19...

Kate writes an honest and heartfelt letter to her 16-year-old self for UQ people - Read here: Dear 16-year-old me..

Sabrina Sofia Burgener and Kate Schroder from the Inflammasome Lab have published a perspective in Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. In it they "review the signaling mechanisms and cell biology underpinning the key NETosis ..

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Delighted to be part of the organising committee for the upcoming EMBO Workshop on inflammasomes: the next frontier in Germany in September 2020...

Dave Boucher, former Inflammasome lab member, is now a lecturer and lab head in the Department of Biology at the University of York...

We are excited to announce the award of a University of Queensland, Early Career Researcher (UQ, ECR) grant, to Inflammasome Lab's Larisa Labzin!  ..

Congratulations to Sabrina Sofia Burgener from the Inflammasome Lab for being granted the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship.  ..

Congratulations to Inflammasome Lab's Mercedes Monteleone for being awarded the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)!  ..

Stefan Emming and Kate Schroder from the Inflammasome Lab have published a review in Science magazine this month on how "Multiple DNA sensors (TLR9, hnRNP-A2B1, cGAS, and AIM2) in different cellular compartments may allow..

Congratulations to Inflammasome Lab head, Kate Schroder, for winning the ANZSCDB Emerging Leader award!  ..

Congratulations to Inflammasome Lab students, Amy Chan and Hana Starobova, for winning the Women In Technology (WIT) Life Sciences Young Achiever award..

The Inflammasome Lab is excited to welcome Dr Larisa Labzin to the group...

Thanks Grace for all your hard work - happy lab manager appreciation day!..

This month the Inflammasome Lab welcomes Dr Stefan Emming to the group! Stefan comes to us from Switzerland and joins the lab as a Postdoc to research the molecular mechanisms underpinning inflammasome activation.  ..

We are excited to welcome Dr Sabrina Burgener to the Inflammasome Lab! Sabrina joins us from Switzerland, and is interested in understanding how inflammasome effector functions in neutrophils and macrophages drive inflammatory diseases...

The Inflammasome Lab have defined the molecular target of MCC950, revealing the mechanism by which this potent and specific small-molecule inhibitor inhibits the NLRP3 inflammasome.  ..

Delighted to be part of the organising committee for the upcoming 14th World Congress on Inflammation in Sydney in September 2019. This meeting will showcase exciting inflammation science from around the globe...

In April this year the Inflammasome Lab had the pleasure of welcoming Mark Milner to the group. Mark joins the lab for his PhD and will explore the importance of inflammasome activation in Alzheimer's disease.  ..

The Inflammasome Lab is sad to say goodbye to the amazing Rebecca Coll but thrilled that she is starting a new position as a Lecturer and Lab Head at Queens University Belfast...

Congratulations to Inflammasome Lab head, Kate Schroder, for winning the ASBMB 2019 Merck Research Medal!  ..

The Inflammasome Lab is pleased to welcome Grace Pamo Lawrence! Grace hails from... the Sweet Lab, next door!..

This year we welcome Madhavi (Madi) Maddugoda to the Inflammasome Lab. Madi returns to Brisbane from Sydney to work part-time in our lab as a science writer and illustrator.  ..

Congratulations to Inflammasome Lab PhD student, Caroline Holley, for winning the ATA Scientific Encouragement Award!..

The Inflammasome Lab have discovered a new pathway for host defence against cytosolic Gram-negative bacteria, revealing unexpected links between pyroptosis and NETosis...

Associate Professor Kate Schroder proudly joins the UQ Ally Network of staff who create a saf..

Here the Inflammasome Lab reveal that Salmonella evades immune response by subverting the NLRP3 and NLRC4 inflammasome in macrophages...

Delighted to present Inflammasome Lab's recent research at the 13th ITMAT Symposium in October 2018 at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania...

Congratulations to Inflammasome Lab PhD student, Amy Chan, for winning a presentation prize at the 2018 EMBO Inflammasome Workshop!..

The Inflammasome Lab have discovered a new pathway for host defence against cytosolic Gram-negative bacteria, revealing unexpected links between pyroptosis and NETosis...

New research from Inflammasome Lab reveals trafficking mechanisms driving the unconventional secretion of mature interleukin-1β in non-pyroptotic and pyroptotic myeloid cells, and functions for caspase-1 and Gasdermin-D therein...

Kate Schroder is looking forward to presenting the Inflammasome Lab's latest research at Harvard Medical School on the 10 October 2018...

Congratulations to Inflammasome Lab Research Assistant, Jessica von Pein, and Honours Student, Connie Ross, for their outstanding undergraduate achievements, recently acknowledged by UQ University Medals!  ..

The lab celebrated new paper acceptances with a pub crawl of Brisbane's finest establishments in West End on Friday. Congratulations to everyone in the Inflammasome Lab, and to our wonderful overseas collaborators!..

Save the date! The 14th World Congress on Inflammation will be held from 15-19 September 2019 in Sydney...

Inflammasome Lab's Kate Schroder is delighted to join the International Council of Affiliate Members of the Autophagy, Inflammation, and Metabolism Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (the AIM Center), located in New Mexico, USA.  ..

This week, Kate Schroder is looking forward to warming up Melbourne with the Inflammasome Lab's latest research at the Immunology Group of Victoria's Annual Winter Seminar...

The Inflammasome Lab is thrilled to have our recent research featured in the Journal of Experimental Medicine special collection.  ..

This month we farewell Damiën Bierschenk, who leaves the Inflammasome Lab for Sweden after submitting his PhD thesis...

The Inflammasome Lab is looking forward to the EMBO inflammasome workshop, in Munich 25-28 September 2018.  ..

The Inflammasome Lab have discovered that neutrophils can signal via TNFR1-driven ripoptosome assembly to induce both cell death and IL-1β maturation, but suppress TLR4-dependent cell death and NLRP3 inflammasome activation during IAP inhibition, ..

Inflammasome Lab Head, Associate Professor Kate Schroder is very excited to be presenting at the upcoming TOLL 2018 meeting in Porto, Portugal June 6-9 2018.  ..

Congratulations to Inflammasome Lab PhD student, Amy Chan, for winning the People's Choice Award for 2018 Queensland Women in STEM!  ..

Inflammasome Lab researchers, Associate Professor Kate Schroder and Dr Dave Boucher, are looking forward to the 2nd Japan Australia Meeting on Cell Death, in Tokyo 22-23 May 2018.  ..

The Inflammasome Lab have uncovered precisely how caspase-1 is activated upon inflammasomes, which has revealed a new model for inflammasome signalling, function, and signal shutdown...

The Inflammasome Lab have uncovered precisely how caspase-1 is activated upon inflammasomes, which has revealed a new model for inflammasome signalling, function, and signal shutdown...

The 2018 Hunter Cell Biology Meeting brings together researchers at all levels in Cell & Developmental Biology, Systems Biology and Cell Imaging.   ..

The inflammasome special issue of Journal of Molecular Biology, co-edited by Kate Schroder, Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti, Feng Shao and Petr Broz, is now online...

This week the Inflammasome Lab held a joint Christmas Party with our laboratory neighbours, the Sweet Lab. The Schroderites and the Sweeties battled for domination on the green, with the game of lawn bowls emerging as the winner! ..

This month we said farewell to Kaiwen Chen, who leaves the Inflammasome Lab for an exciting Postdoctoral position in Petr Broz's Lab in Switzerland, and Jennifer (Cookie) Dou who is embarking on an exciting new career in animation...

This week, the Inflammasome Lab went for a three day retreat to Montville. The first morning we discussed our big ideas for exciting future projects and technologies, and walked the beautiful rainforest circuit at Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve...

Dr Larisa Labzin who is working to understand how our body fights back against viruses has received a national medical research award...

Congratulations to Inflammasome Lab Honours student, Connie Ross for winning the John and Jan de Jersey Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Prize!..

Congratulations to Caroline Holley who has been selected to be part of The University of Que..

Chronic diseases associated with immunometabolic dysfunction are growing exponentially in all parts of the world. However, in the Asia Pacific Region the growth of some of these diseases is alarming.   ..

Associate Professor Kate Schroder has been appointed to the scientific advisory board of a new start-up company to develop treatments for inflammatory disorders including Parkinson’s disease and asthma.  ..

Part of the research team who discovered MCC950 - a small molecule inflammasome inhibitor - has been awarded a Therapeutic Pipeline Program Grant from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.  ..

We are excited to announce that Associate Professor Kate Schroder, has been awarded funding to explore a novel mechanism for IL-1β secretion.Th..

Dr Rebecca Coll, a postdoc from the Inflammasome Lab, has been awarded the prestigous Research Australia Discovery Award for 2016, at the Research Australia Health and Medical Research Awards ceremony in Sydney...

Congratulations to Dr Alina Zomoshnikova who was awarded her PhD this week. Supervised by Dr Kate Schroder, Alina's PhD research in the Inflammasome Lab has investigated innate immunity and inflammation...

Congratulations to Larisa Labzin on her newly awarded NHMRC CJ Martin Early Career Fellowship. Larisa recently completed her PhD with Professor Eicke Latz at the Institute of Innate Immunity at the University of Bonn in Germany...

Research from the Inflammasome Lab performed by Dr Rebecca Coll (pictured) and Dr Kate Schroder, in collaboration with Dr Avril Robertson and Professor Matt Cooper (Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland), and Professor L..

Last weekend the Inflammasome Lab lacrosse team performed in The University of Queensland Lacrosse Club's Halloween Tournament, held on UQ's brand new synthetic turf fields...

Connie Ross, who undertook research in the Inflammasome Lab as an undergraduate intern in Summer 2013/2014 and Winter 2015, returns to the lab in July 2016 as an Honours student...

This week we said farewell to Dr Jelena Bezbradica Mirkovic who leaves the Inflammasome Lab for Oxford University in the United Kingdom...

Last week, the Inflammasome Lab went to Byron Bay for a three day retreat. The first two days we workshopped scientific writing techniques, future publications, career development and exciting new research ideas...

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Congratulations to Dr Rebecca Coll who was awarded a University of Queensland Fellowship...

The lab celebrated three new paper acceptances with dinner at Happy Boy, Spring Hill on Wednesday night...

We headed to Burleigh Heads with the Stacey and Sweet groups on Monday the 7th of December for lunch and beach activities to celebrate the end of 2015.  Lunch was at Burleigh Heads surf club, which had an excellent view of the beach...