Innate Immunity in the Sunshine State

LtoR: Kaiwen Chen, Steve Broomfi eld, Juliana Ariffi n, Kolja Schaale, Nilesh Bokil, Matt Sweet, Alina Zamoshnikova, Kate Schroder, Melanie Shakespear, Divya Ramnath, Daniel Hohenhaus, Tam Nguyen, Kelly Masterman I returned to Oz after a post-doc in “sunny Scotland” about 10 years ago. Before leaving Australia my wife and I had a vague (very vague) idea that it would be nice to end up in Melbourne when we returned, but I guess counting more than 100 days in a row of Glasgow rain was enough to send us straight back to Brisbane whence we came. Since 2007, I’ve had my own research group in the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland, which focuses on innate immunity in the context of infl ammatory pathways and responses to Gram-negative bacterial pathogens.