IIT Seminar | Dr Fatima Dhalla

Dr Fatima Dhalla (University of Oxford) will be speaking at the UCL Institute of Immunity and Transplantation Seminar Series on Thursday 27 May.

All are welcome to attend. Please contact Fran Jackson (f.jackson@ucl.ac.uk) if you would like to join the seminar, or meet the speaker.

About the speaker

Fatima is an Academic Clinical Lecturer in Clinical Immunology in Oxford. She works in the clinical immunology department looking after patients with primary and secondary immune deficiencies and allergies, as well as in the laboratory of Professor Georg Hollander studying various aspects of thymic stromal cell biology.
 
She started working in Georg’s lab in 2015 as a PhD student. During her doctorate she studied transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms that underlie promiscuous gene expression in thymic epithelial cells, a process critical for negative selection and therefore T-cell central tolerance induction.
 
Since then, she has extended her interested to studying broader aspects of thymic stromal cell development, heterogeneity and function in both mouse models and in humans. Given her clinical background she has a particular interest in inborn errors of thymic stromal cells and has now started to study models of known disease, and, in collaboration with GOSH, patients with molecularly undefined congenital athymia.

Further information

• Academic profile: Dr Fatima Dhalla
• University of Oxford
• UCL Institute of Immunity and Transplantation