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Dr Samantha Dando is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Biomedical Sciences at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), leading the Neuroimmunology and Infections Research Group. Her research focuses on immune cells in the brain and eye during health and disease, with a particular emphasis on neuroimmunology, ocular immunology, and medical microbiology. She holds a PhD in microbiology from QUT and has conducted post-doctoral research at Griffith University and Monash University. In 2018, she was awarded an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship to study immune cell subsets in the brain and eye. Dr Dando teaches microbiology and immunology to biomedical science, medical laboratory science, and optometry students at QUT.
Her research interests include microglia dynamics, immune privilege in the central nervous system, and the pathogenesis of intra-amniotic infections. She has published extensively on topics such as retinal immune cell responses, antigen presenting cell heterogeneity, and therapeutic targeting of neuroinflammatory diseases. Her work bridges immunology, neuroscience, and microbiology, with applications in understanding neurological processes and developing immunotherapies.
- Education: PhD in Microbiology (QUT), Postdoctoral training at Griffith University and Monash University.
- Awards: Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship (2018).
- Labs/Teams: Neuroimmunology and Infections Research Group (QUT).
Dr Dando is an active member of professional societies, including the Australian Society for Microbiology and the International Society of Neuroimmunology. She currently supervises postgraduate students in Honours, Masters, and PhD programs, focusing on immune cell characterization in neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases.
