Working groups
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.
Frontiers in Immunology
Linda Reiling, Freya J. I. Fowkes, James G. Beeson
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Ashley Lisboa-Pinto, Jo-Anne Chan, Shirley Lu, Alex C. Harris, Adam Thomas, D. Herbert Opi, Linda Reiling, Leanne J. Robinson, James G. Beeson, Jo-Anne Chan
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Ashley Lisboa-Pinto, Jo-Anne Chan, Shirley Lu, Alex C. Harris, Adam Thomas, D. Herbert Opi, Linda Reiling, Leanne J. Robinson, James G. Beeson, Jo-Anne Chan
A collaborative research program aimed at providing life-saving health care for women and children in Papua New Guinea.
In resource-poor regions, pregnant women experience high malaria rates, undernutrition and sexually transmitted infections. These can lead to maternal morbidity, mortality and in infants low birth weight and stunting.
In the fight against malaria, we're exploring antibodies that can directly inhibit host cell infection, interact with immune cells to kill and clear malaria or recruit the body’s complement system to neutralise infection.