Dr Kylie James

Dr Kylie James is Group Leader of the Immunogenomics of Inflammatory Bowel Disease team at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. She completed her PhD at University of Queensland working with Dr Ashraful Haque at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute. In this role, she determined the response kinetics of T helper cells during blood-stage malaria. Kylie then continued to pursue her interest in the immune system as a postdoctoral researcher with Dr Sarah Teichmann at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Junior Research Fellow at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge, UK. Her work redefined our understanding of the balance of immune and microbial cells across the healthy human colon. In 2021, Kylie returned to Australia to start her own team as Spinak Fellow and supported by an NHMRC Investigator Grant.

Her team investigates how environmental factors shape gut immune cell and microbial landscapes in health and disease. To achieve this goal, the team apply single-cell genomics and computational approaches to reconstruct cellular microenvironments, developmental hierarchies and interactions.