Dr Linda Reiling
Senior Research Fellow; Team Lead, Malaria, Vaccines and Child Health
Working groups
Background
Linda completed her PhD in 2005 at the Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany, investigating the role of heat shock proteins in Leishmania infections. She then joined Professor James Beeson's lab at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research as a postdoctoral scientist before moving to the Burnet Institute in 2011 with the rest of the group. Her work is focused on the role of invasion ligands and surface antigens of merozoites as targets of protective antibodies in acquired immunity against both Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria. Recent projects have focused on investigating the role of complement-activating antibodies in protective immunity and the identification of correlates of protection to inform vaccine development. She is also involved in projects aiming at identifying targets of functional antibodies against transmission-stage parasites that can interrupt the transmission to the mosquito vector or the subsequent development in the mosquito.
Qualifications
- 2005: PhD, University of Hamburg, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
Appointments
- 2024: Senior Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne
Positions
- 2021: Honorary Fellow, Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne
- 2020: Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Department of Immunology, Monash University
- 2018: Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian Centre for Research Excellence in Malaria Elimination
Awards
- 2025: Miller Foundation Biomedical Research Travel Fellowship
- 2025: Biomedical Research Travel Fellowship
- 2020: Dora Lush Travel Fellowship
Burnet publications
View 36 moreRelationship between antibody avidity, Fc-mediated functional activity and longevity of malaria vaccine responses in clinical trials
Frontiers in Immunology
Jessica L. Horton et al
Targeting a malaria merozoite surface protein with mRNA vaccine generates multifunctional antibodies
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Adam Thomas et al
A longitudinal study of children identifies antibody Fc-mediated functions and antigen targets of immunity to Plasmodium vivax malaria
Immunity
D. Herbert Opi et al
Current projects
View 3 moreMalaria Synergy Program
The program brings together experts to achieve the goals of malaria elimination in the Asia-Pacific region and globally.
Vaccines against malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax
The project identifies and prioritises candidate antigens for vaccine development.
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies (HMHB)
A collaborative research program aimed at providing life-saving health care for women and children in Papua New Guinea.
