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Cambridge Immunology Network

 

Research

I am interested in understanding how innate immune responses are regulated during Staphylococcus aureus infection and how they might be manipulated therapeutically

Publications

Key publications: 

Mark Schiebler, Karen Brown, Krisztina Hegyi, Sandra M Newton, Maurizio Renna, Lucy Hepburn, Catherine Klapholz, Sarah Coulter, Andres Obregón‐Henao, Marcela Henao Tamayo, Randall Basaraba, Beate Kampmann, Katherine M Henry, Joseph Burgon, Stephen A Renshaw, Angeleen Fleming, Robert R Kay, Karen E Anderson, Phillip T Hawkins, Diane J Ordway, David C Rubinsztein, Rodrigo Andres Floto Functional drug screening reveals anticonvulsants as enhancers of mTOR‐independent autophagic killing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis through inositol depletion EMBO Molecular Medicine

Hepburn L, Prajsnar TK, Klapholz C, Moreno P, Loynes CA, Ogryzko NV, Brown K, Schiebler M, Hegyi K, Antrobus R, Hammond KL, Connolly J, Ochoa B, Bryant C, Otto M, Surewaard B, Seneviratne SL, Grogono DM, Cachat J, Ny T, Kaser A, Török ME, Peacock SJ, Holden M, Blundell T, Wang L, Ligoxygakis P, Minichiello L, Woods CG, Foster SJ, Renshaw SA, Floto RA. Innate immunity. A Spaetzle-like role for nerve growth factor β in vertebrate immunity to Staphylococcus aureus. Science. 2014 Oct 31;346(6209):641-6. 

 Lucy  Hepburn
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Affiliations

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Person keywords: 
cytokine secretion
phagocytosis
intracellular killing
host innate immunity
macrophages
calcium signalling
human studies
autophagy
chemotaxis
confocal microscopy
FACS
ELISA's
neutrophils