Dr Deborah Burnett
Conjoint Senior Lecturer

Dr Deborah Burnett

BSc(Vet) (Hons1), BVSc (Hons1). 

Medicine & Health
School of Clinical Medicine

Deborah is a postdoctorate at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and Conjoint Associate Lecturer at St Vincent's Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW. 

Phone
(02) 9295 8100
  • Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Blood and guts: peripheral immune correlates of immunotherapy-induced colitis', Immunology and Cell Biology, 101, pp. 12 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imcb.12604
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Broadly neutralizing SARS-CoV-2 antibodies through epitope-based selection from convalescent patients', Nature Communications, 14, pp. 687, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36295-5
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Total recall? Understanding the effect of antigenic distance on original antigenic sin', Immunology and Cell Biology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imcb.12638
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Augmented neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant by boost vaccination and monoclonal antibodies', European Journal of Immunology, 52, pp. 970 - 977, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eji.202249841
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'B cells in the balance: Offsetting self-reactivity avoidance with protection against foreign', Frontiers in Immunology, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.951385
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Editorial: Decoding checkpoint inhibitor-induced endocrinopathies', Frontiers in Endocrinology, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2022.987648
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Getting to the (germinal) center of humoral immune responses to SARS-CoV-2', Cell, 185, pp. 945 - 948, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2022.02.018
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Insights Into the Host Contribution of Endocrine Associated Immune-Related Adverse Events to Immune Checkpoint Inhibition Therapy', Frontiers in Oncology, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.894015
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Platform for isolation and characterization of SARS-CoV-2 variants enables rapid characterization of Omicron in Australia', Nature Microbiology, 7, pp. 896 - 908, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01135-7
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Immunizations with diverse sarbecovirus receptor-binding domains elicit SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies against a conserved site of vulnerability', Immunity, 54, pp. 2908 - 2921.e6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2021.10.019
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Long-term persistence of RBD+ memory B cells encoding neutralizing antibodies in SARS-CoV-2 infection', Cell Reports Medicine, 2, pp. 100228, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrm.2021.100228
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Potent SARS-CoV-2 binding and neutralization through maturation of iconic SARS-CoV-1 antibodies', mAbs, 13, pp. 1922134, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420862.2021.1922134
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Conformational diversity facilitates antibody mutation trajectories and discrimination between foreign and self-antigens', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117, pp. 22341 - 22350, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2005102117
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Erratum: Equid herpesvirus type 1 activates platelets (PLoS ONE (2015) 10: 4 (e0122640) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122640)', PLoS ONE, 15, pp. e0237679, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237679
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Lymphoma Driver Mutations in the Pathogenic Evolution of an Iconic Human Autoantibody', Cell, 180, pp. 878 - 894.e19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.01.029
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Potent SARS-CoV-2 binding and neutralization through maturation of iconic SARS-CoV-1 antibodies', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.14.422791
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'The importance of veterinary specialized generalists in biomedical research', Research in Veterinary Science, 129, pp. 185 - 186, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rvsc.2020.02.003
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Clonal redemption and clonal anergy as mechanisms to balance B cell tolerance and immunity', Immunological Reviews, 292, pp. 61 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imr.12808
    Journal articles | 2018
    Burnett DL; Langley DB; Schofield P; Hermes JR; Chan TD; Jackson J; Bourne K; Reed JH; Patterson K; Porebski BT; Brink R; Christ D; Goodnow CC, 2018, 'Germinal center antibody mutation trajectories are determined by rapid self/foreign discrimination', Science, 360, pp. 223 - 226, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aao3859
    Journal articles | 2017
    Burnett DL; Parish IA; Masle-Farquhar E; Brink R; Goodnow CC, 2017, 'Murine LRBA deficiency causes CTLA-4 deficiency in Tregs without progression to immune dysregulation', Immunology and Cell Biology, 95, pp. 775 - 788, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/icb.2017.50
    Journal articles | 2017
    Langley DB; Crossett B; Schofield P; Jackson J; Zeraati M; Maltby D; Christie M; Burnett D; Brink R; Goodnow C; Christ D, 2017, 'Structural basis of antigen recognition: Crystal structure of duck egg lysozyme', Acta Crystallographica Section D: Structural Biology, 73, pp. 910 - 920, http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S2059798317013730
    Journal articles | 2016
    2016, 'Investigation of cell-free DNA in canine plasma and its relation to disease', Veterinary Quarterly, 36, pp. 122 - 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01652176.2016.1182230
    Journal articles | 2015
    2015, 'Equid herpesvirus type 1 activates platelets', PLoS ONE, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122640
    Journal articles | 2014
    2014, 'Platelet production proceeds independently of the intrinsic and extrinsic apoptosis pathways', Nature Communications, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4455
    Journal articles | 2010
    2010, 'A rare granulomatous reaction to Q fever vaccination following influenza vaccination.', The Medical Journal of Australia, 193, pp. 60 - 60

Deborah was awarded a NHMRC Emerging Leadership 1 grant from 2020-2025. 

Deborah works in the Immunology theme of Garvan Institute of Medical Research. Her research focuses on using understanding how the the immune system responds to threats closely mimicking self.