Yvonne graduated with a PhD from the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany, and after a period researching innate immune mechanisms in skin autoinflammatory diseases at the LMU Munich she joined Denise Fitzgerald’s group at Queen’s University Belfast. Here, she identified regulatory T cells as key mediators of myelin regeneration. In 2014, she was awarded an Early Career Fellowship from The Leverhulme Trust and in 2016 she started her own group at the Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine. Her research interest focuses on immune mediated tissue regeneration with particular focus on innate immune mechanisms in myelin regeneration.

Favourite lab tool: All of them! I miss being in the lab!

Fun fact: As a postdoc Yvonne met 36 Nobel Prize winners for Physiology or Medicine at the 64th Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting (see Photo Gallery)

Richard is a final year PhD student currently working in the Dombrowski lab group. Having completed an undergraduate degree in Biomedical Sciences and a Master's degree in Parasitology and Pathogen Biology, his PhD project is looking at the role played by the inflammasome in multiple sclerosis.

Katherine carried out her PhD at Ulster University where she studied the regulation of cell cycle checkpoints. During her postdoc at the University of St Andrews and University of Birmingham she investigated the role of the helicase ChlR1 in DNA repair and its role in maintenance and segregation of the HPV (human papillomavirus) episome. 

Her current research looks at the role of inflammasomes in response to demyelination, using both in vivo and ex vivo models.

Huda is a dentist who graduated from the University of Jordan. She is currently interested in understanding the role of inflammasomes in dental pulp diseases, and their potential role in pulp tissue regeneration.

Tara carried out her undergraduate placement year, undergraduate project, and MSci research project in the Dombrowski lab and has rejoined for her PhD. She is studying NLRP3 and Aim2 and their particular roles in microglia and Tregs.