Katharina Gaus

Katharina Gaus
Residence Australia
Fields Cell receptors and membrane biology, signal transduction and medical biochemistry[1]
Notable awards Elizabeth Blackburn Fellowship, 2013; Gottschalk Medal, 2012
Spouse Professor Justin Gooding[2]
External video
Katharina Gaus - Extreme Close-up on Immunity, AboutUNSW

Katharina Gaus is an Australian immunologist and molecular microscopist. She is currently an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow[3] and founding head of the Cellular Membrane Biology Lab, part of the Centre for Vascular Research at the University of New South Wales.[4] Gaus uses new super-resolution fluorescence microscopes[5][6][7] to examine the plasma membrane within intact living cells, and study cell signalling at the level of single molecules to better understand how cells "make decisions".[8] A key discovery of Gaus and her team was how T-cells decide to switch on the body's immune system to attack diseases.[9][10] Her work is of importance to the development of drugs that can work with T-cells in support of the immune system.[8]

Education

Gaus studied physics and mathematics at the University of Heidelberg, Germany and a MPhil (1996) and PhD (1999) from the Institute of Biotechnology[11] at the University of Cambridge.[1] While there she created a biosensor to detect protein-protein interactions and a ligand library, useful as a diagnostic tool.[11]

Career

Following her studies at the University of Cambridge, Katharina joined the Cell Biology Group at the Heart Research Institute in Sydney, Australia, led by Roger Dean and Wendy Jessup.[12] Around 2002, she moved with Wendy Jessup's group to the Centre for Vascular Research at the University of New South Wales.[11]

She has received several fellowships, spending three months of 2001 at the University of Urbana-Champagne, working with Enrico Gratton before returning to Australia to take up an Australian Research Council postdoctoral fellowship.[13] In 2005 Gaus was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship and spent six months at the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany,[13] working in the laboratory of Kai Simons.[12]

As of 2005, Gaus founded the Cellular Membrane Biology Lab, part of the Centre for Vascular Research at the University of New South Wales.[12][11] As of 2009 she became a Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) in Australia.[12]

Gaus is a member of the Australian Centre for NanoMedicine, founded in 2011, which is based at the University of New South Wales.[14] She is also Deputy Director and a Chief Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging.[15]

Katharina Gaus is active in encouraging girls to enter scientific fields.[16]

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 "Professor Katharina Gaus". University of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  2. 1 2 Gough, Myles (4 November 2013). "UNSW shines at science and engineering awards". UNSW Media Office. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 Cooper, Alexis (11 June 2014). "Top researchers recognised with NHMRC Excellence Awards". National Health and Medical Research Council. Australian Government. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "Cellular Membrane Biology Lab". University of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  5. 1 2 "Career research awards". Australian Academy of Science Awardees for 2012. Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "Katharina Gaus". Single Molecule Science. UNSW Australia. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  7. ↑ "Working with Industry – July news from the Imaging Centre of Excellence". Science in Public. ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular. 20 July 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  8. 1 2 3 "Katharina Gaus: Elizabeth Blackburn Fellowship – Biomedical 2013". National Health and Medical Research Council. Australian Government. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  9. ↑ Cave, Peter (June 6, 2011). "Super microscope discovers the secrets of immune cells". ABC Radio - AM program. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  10. ↑ "Supermicroscope pins immune ‘switch’". Australasian Science (June 2011). Control Publications Pty Ltd. 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 Wylie, Fiona (2010). "ANZSCDB Young Investigator Award : Kat Gaus, Pushing the boundaries is all in a day’s work" (PDF). Newsletter (June 2010). Australia and New Zealand Society for Cell and Developmental Biology. pp. 7–8. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  12. 1 2 3 4 "Professor Katharina Gaus". UNSW Medicine.
  13. 1 2 "Dr. Katharina Gaus". Australian Institute of Policy and Science (AIPS). Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  14. ↑ "ACN Members and Associate Members". Australian Centre for NanoMedicine (ACN). Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  15. ↑ "Chief Investigators". Centre for Advanced Molecular Imaging. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  16. ↑ "Inspiring the next generation of female scientists". Single Molecule Science. UNSW Australia. 22 May 2015.
  17. ↑ "Awards". NSW Government Department of Industry. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  18. ↑ "2005 New South Wales Award Winners". Tall Poppies. Retrieved 21 October 2015.

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