Honours At The Jenkins Lab
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Completed an Honours year focusing on target validation and development of a novel chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell to treat malignant paediatric and adult gliomas including diffuse midline glioma and glioblastoma. This project was supervised by Associate Professor Misty Jenkins, Dr Ryan Cross and Dr Alex Davenport. Wet lab skills acquired: Primary cell tissue culture • Murine T cell isolation • Flow cytometry • Retroviral/ Lentiviral Transduction • Cloning • Sequencing analysis • Incucyte killing assays • Cytokine bead arrays Dry Lab skills acquired: Patent searching • SnapGene • Prism • Adobe Illustrator • FlowJo • Incucyte and CBA data analysis Demonstrated scientific communication through written text, oral presentations and a poster presented at the WEHI student symposium. A high quality of work was recognised by being awarded the 2022 Colman Speed Award for achieving the highest overall grade in the cohort. This experience was kindly and generously supported by the Strathmore Community Bank Honours Scholarship and the Ann Henderson PhD Scholarship.