Kylie R James 43rd Lorne Genome Conference 2022

Kylie R James

Dr Kylie James runs a research group investigating environmental factors shaping gut immune cell and microbial landscapes in health and inflammatory bowel disease. Her group applies single-cell genomics, microbial sequencing and computational approaches to reconstruct cellular microenvironments, developmental hierarchies and interactions. Kylie completed her postgraduate degree at University of Queensland working with Dr Ashraful Haque at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute. She then moved to the Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK, to work with Dr Sarah Teichmann as a postdoctoral research fellow and Junior Research Fellow at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge. Here, she pioneered the development of a Colon Immune Cell Atlas, showing for the first time, immune and microbial niches within the healthy human colon. In 2021, Kylie returned to Australia as a group leader at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research supported by an NHMRC Investigator Grant and Spinak Fellowship.