Background

Finished her Bachelor of Science degree with a pathology/immunology double major at The University of Melbourne and started her scientific career at ARI where she completed her Honours degree with a first author publication. Worked as a Research Assistant most recently as a Research Assistant/Flow Cytomertrist at St.Vincents Institute.

Has worked on a variety of areas including platelets and tetraspanin interactions, human and mouse T-cells and immune reactions specific to rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes, as well as participation in the human islet isolation and transplant program at St. Vincent’s Institute.

Positions

• Research Assistant/Flow Cytomertrist – St.Vincents Institute 2014-2015
• Research Assistant – Burnet Institute 2009-2014
• Research Assistant – RMIT 2009

Qualifications

• 2008 BSc Hon, University of Melbourne, Australia

Awards

• Travel grant Australasian Cytometry Society 2014
• 1st Prize “Best Poster Award” Australasian Flow Cytometry Group 2013
• Travel grant Australasian Flow Cytometry Group 2013.
• Travel grant Australasian Flow Cytometry Group 2012.

Publications (4)

2017 (1)

• Distinctive expression of Interleukin-23 receptor subunits on human Th17 and gammadelta T cells.
  Wines BD, Yap ML, Powell MS, Tan PS, Ko KK, Orlowski E, Hogarth PM
  Immunol Cell Biol. 2017 Mar; 95(3):272-279

2014 (1)

• Polymorphisms and Interspecies Differences of the Activating and Inhibitory FcgammaRII of Macaca nemestrina Influence the Binding of Human IgG Subclasses.
  Trist HM, Tan PS, Wines BD, Ramsland PA, Orlowski E, Stubbs J, Gardiner EE, Pietersz GA, Kent SJ, Stratov I, Burton DR, Hogarth PM
  J Immunol. 2014 Jan; 192(2):892-903

2012 (1)

• Isolation, expansion and characterisation of alloreactive human Th17 and Th1 cells.
  Ko KK, Powell MS, Orlowski E, Prickett S, Krumbiegel D, Hogarth PM
  Immunol Lett. 2012 Mar; 143(1):116-121

2009 (1)

• A platelet tetraspanin superfamily member, CD151, is required for regulation of thrombus growth and stability in vivo.
  Orlowski E, Chand R, Yip J, Wong C, Goschnick MW, Wright MD, Ashman LK, Jackson DE
  J Thromb Haemost. 2009 Dec; 7(12):2074-2084