Name: Cancer Combatants and Avian Allies
Start: 2024-05-14T19:00:00
End: 2024-05-14T20:30:00
Location: Notting Hill Hotel

Learn about the latest T cell insights in breast cancer treatment and how genetic conservation can save an endangered bird species.

Investigating T cells in breast cancer

Bec Brown (ONJCRI/La Trobe University)

How would the treatment of breast cancer change if we could employ rare immune cells, with a "particular" set of skills, to patrol the body and keep cancer cells from spreading? γδ T cells could be this cell type in cancer patients, but how these cells act in breast cancer isn’t known… yet.

Using genetics to save an endangered bird

Diana Robledo-Ruiz (Monash University)

The cute helmeted honeyeater is a Victorian bird that is critically endangered. The sole population is so small that everyone is related to one another. We are using an amazing technique called genetic rescue to help them find sexy mates.

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