Nelly Amenyogbe

Post-Doctoral fellow

• B.Sc Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia (2012)
• PhD Experimental Medicine with W. Mohn, UBC, 2020
• PostDoc, Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, Australia
• Find me on Linkedin, X.com @nelly_amenyogbe

Tobias R. Kollmann

Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

• Founder, Born Strong Initiative
• MD PhD Microbiology & Immunology, with AECOM, Bronx, New York
• Fellowship & Residency with U. Washington, Seattle
• Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases University of British Columbia
• Professor, Systems Vaccinology Perth, Australia

Kayle Dickson, PhD

Research Assistant

• PhD, Dalhousie University with C. Lehmann, Halifax, Nova Scotia

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Adrien Eynaud

A part of our Systems Vaccinology team at TKI from 2020 - 2023, now finishing up his master in Data Science at U. Western Australia
Role: Data science guru, also willing to pitch in at any odd hour to get our timepoints done!

Joan Solomon

Joan joined our team as an M. Sc student from UWA in 2021.
Role: Joan finished strong with a first-class thesis, and brought a ray of sunshine to our group!

Elizna Schoeman

Elizna joined us at TKI in Australia as a Research Associate.
Role: Elizna helped our team set up and operate our indirect calorimetry system for newborn mice.

Shadie Rezazadeh

Shadie brought her energy to our team for two years
Role: Shadie learned the basics of bioinformatics while delving into the stool microbiome of infants from Mozambique.

Ziyuan Wu

Ziyuan joined us in Perth from Aug - Nov 2022.
Info: Ziyuan is interested in neonatal sepsis, and focussed on studying preventative metabolic interventions.

Ole Baek

Ole joined us in Perth from Feb - May 2023.
Info: Ole joined us to learn the ropes of some of our sepsis models, and spent a month in Bissau working with one of our studies, BCG In Situ.

The Amy Lee Lab

We have been working with Assistant Professor Amy Lee since she was a post doc at UBC, and glad that we are still in it together trying to solve the riddles of neonatal sepsis
Info: visit her lab website

The Computational Biology Lab at UBC

Dr. Amrit Singh leads the Computational Biology Lab at UBC, and is among the world’s leaders in multi omic integration and systems biology.
Info: visit their lab website

The Bandim Health Project

The BHP is the birthplace of vaccine non-specific effects. Led by Peter Aaby and Christine Stabell Benn, we always look forward to field work in Bissau.
Info: Visit their website

Genomics at the MRC Unit, the Gambia

The Genomics core is led by Dr. Abdul Sesay, and hosts a vibrat team of promising informaticians. We are thrilled to exchange knowlede and ideas, and work towards solutions to maternal-infant health together.
Info: Visit the MRC Unit website

Kintampo Health Research Centre, Ghana

We have been working with the KHRC since 2016 on the early life microbiome and probiotics to reduce the burden of newborn infections.
Info: Visit the KHRC website

Valerie Verhasselt, Immunology & Breastfeeding at TKI

Prof. Verhasselt is a pioneer in studying breastmilk and immunity. We partnered with her to study how newborn nutrition impacts newborn responses to sepsis.
Info: Visit Valerie’s website

Ninh Nguyen, Cellular and Molecular Pediatrics @ U. Copenhagen

Assoc. Prof Nguyen’s team are pioneers in neonatal nutrition and sepsis. We benefit from similar visions and goals, and work together on growing numbers of initiatives.
Info: Visit Ninh’s website

AGREE study team at KEMRI

Led by Dr Helen Barsosio of KEMRI and Prof. Kevin Kain at U. Toronto, our teams joined forces to better understand how colostrum can help babies beat sepsis.
Info: Learn more about KEMRI

David Lynn’s lab at SAHMRI

Led by Prof. David Lynn, we work together to understand the role of the microbiome on how BCG protects newborns from sepsis.
Info: Visit the Lynn Lab’s website