Kirsten Kenney
Kirsten Kenney
PhD student
Inflammasome Lab
Kirsten completed a Bachelor of Science (Biological Science and Human and Biomolecular Science) from Queensland University of Technology in 2018. In the following year, Kirsten undertook an Honours degree investigating the influence of upstream open reading frames on GGP translation. She was awarded First Class Honours from Queensland University of Technology in 2019. After her undergraduate studies, Kirsten worked as a Research Assistant in Distinguished Professor Dale’s plant manipulation and propagation laboratory in the Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy. Kirsten started her PhD studies with the Inflammasome Lab in April 2022, where she aims to understand the drivers of fibrosis and the role of cytokines and inflammasomes in this chronic inflammatory response.
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
Jane Goodall
CONTACTS AND LINKS
Email: k.kenney@uq.edu.au
Office Telephone: +61 7 3346 2356
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS
AWARDS, GRANTS AND PRIZES
2022 IMB Top PhD Applicant Award
2019 Dean’s List for Excellent Academic Excellence
2018 Dean’s List for Excellent Academic Excellence
2017 Dean’s List for Excellent Academic Excellence
2016 Dean’s List for Excellent Academic Excellence
2016 Vice Chancellor Academic Scholarship
EDUCATION
2019 BSc Honours (Biotechnology), Queensland University of Technology, Australia
2018 BSc (Biological Sciences and Human Biomolecular Science), Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Pizzuto M, Monteleone M, Burgener SS, Began J, Kurera M, Chia JR, Frampton E, Crawford J, Oliveira M, Kenney KM, Coombs JR, Yamamoto M, Man SM, Broz P, Pelegrin P, Schroder K (2025).
Cardiolipin inhibits the non-canonical inflammasome by preventing LPS binding to caspase-4/11. EMBO Journal 44(16):4419-4442. Pubmed
Holley CL, Emming S, Monteleone MM, Mellacheruvu M, Kenney KM, Lawrence GMEP, Coombs JR, Burgener SS, Schroder K (2024).
The septin modifier, forchlorfenuron, activates NLRP3 via a potassium-independent mitochondrial axis. Cell Chemical Biology 31(5):962-972. Pubmed
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