STAFF PROFILE
Professor Melissa Churchill
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|Health and Biomedical Sciences
Phone:
+61399256657
Campus:
Bundoora West
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Research supervision
- Fichter, C.,Aggarwal, A.,Churchill, M.,Gorry, P.,Roche, M.,Gray, L.,Turville, S., et al, . (2021). Modular Lentiviral Vectors for Highly Efficient Transgene Expression in Resting Immune Cells In: Viruses, 13, 1 - 16
- Roche, M.,Tumpach, C.,Symons, J.,Gartner, M.,Anderson, J.,Khoury, G.,Cashin, K.,Cameron, P.,Churchill, M.,Deeks, S.,Gorry, P.,Lewin, S. (2020). CXCR4-using HIV strains predominate in naïve and central memory CD4(+) T cells in people living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy: implications for how latency is established and maintained In: Journal of virology, 94, 1 - 1
- Gartner, M.,Roche, M.,Churchill, M.,Gorry, P.,Flynn, J. (2020). Understanding the mechanisms driving the spread of subtype C HIV-1 In: EBioMedicine, 53, 1 - 6
- Gartner, M.,Gorry, P.,Tumpach, C.,Zhou, J.,Dantanarayana, A.,Chang, J.,Angelovich, T.,Ellenberg, P.,Laumaea, A.,Nonyane, M.,Moore, P.,Lewin, S.,Churchill, M.,Flynn, J.,Roche, M. (2020). Longitudinal analysis of subtype C envelope tropism for memory CD4+T cell subsets over the first 3 years of untreated HIV-1 infection In: Retrovirology, 17, 1 - 15
- Moso, M.,Anderson, J.,Adikari, S.,Churchill, M., et al, . (2019). HIV latency can be established in proliferating and nonproliferating resting CD4+ T cells in vitro: implications for latency reversal In: AIDS, 33, 199 - 209
- Bertram, K.,Botting, R.,Baharlou, H.,Churchill, M., et al, M. (2019). Identification of HIV transmitting CD11c+ human epidermal dendritic cells In: Nature Communications, 10, 1 - 15
- Zaunders, J.,Dyer, W.,Churchill, M.,Munier, C. M. L., et al, . (2019). Possible clearance of transfusion-acquired nef/LTR-deleted attenuated HIV-1 infection by an elite controller with CCR5 ?32 heterozygous and HLA-B57 genotype In: Journal of Virus Eradication, 5, 73 - 83
- Wang, H.,Blackall, M.,Sominsky, L.,Spencer, S.,Vlahos, R.,Churchill, M.,Bozinovski, S. (2018). Increased hypothalamic microglial activation after viral-induced pneumococcal lung infection is associated with excess serum amyloid A production In: Journal of Neuroinflammation, 15, 1 - 11
- Chang, C.,Naranbhai, V.,Stern, J.,Roche, M.,Churchill, M., et al., . (2018). Variation in cell-associated unspliced HIV RNA on antiretroviral therapy is associated with the circadian regulator brain-and-muscle-ARNT-like-1 In: AIDS, 32, 2119 - 2128
- Flynn, J.,Ellenberg, P.,Duncan, R.,Ellett, A.,Zhou, J.,Sterjovski, J.,Cashin, K.,Borm, K.,Gray, L.,Lewis, M.,Jubb, B.,Westby, M.,Lee, B.,Lewin, S.,Churchill, M.,Roche, M.,Gorry, P. (2017). Analysis of clinical HIV-1 strains with resistance to maraviroc reveals strain-specific resistance mutations, variable degrees of resistance, and minimal cross-resistance to other CCR5 antagonists In: AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, 33, 1220 - 1235
1 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions3 PhD Current Supervisions
- Characterization of the intact and defective HIV reservoirs in myeloid cells in the brain. Funded by: National Institutes of Health Grant 2017 onwards from (2021 to 2023)
- Ex vivo human organotypic brain slice cultures as a powerful tool to advance NeuroHIV cure strategies. Funded by: WMIMR Australian Centre for HIV and Hepatitis Virology Research Grant (ACH2) 2018 onwards from (2021 to 2022)
- Defining HIV-1 Reservoirs in the Central Nervous System. Funded by: National Health and Medical Research Council Ideas Grants from (2020 to 2023)
- Characterising the role of epigenetic marks in driving monocyte-derived foam cell formation associated with atherosclerosis in ageing individuals. Funded by: Rebecca L. Cooper Medical Research Foundation - Competitive from (2020 to 2023)
- Developing novel drug delivery strategies to target myeloid reservoirs of HIV in the brain. Funded by: WMIMR Australian Centre for HIV and Hepatitis Virology Research Grant (ACH2) 2018 onwards from (2020 to 2021)