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DR MAGDALENA PLEBANSKI



Contact Details

Organization: Pathology
Position: Honorary (Principal Fellow)
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Homepage: http://www.ari.unimelb.edu.au/
Work: 9287 0666
Building: No Building
Campus: Austin Hospital

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
immuno-regulation, developing vaccines activating and identifying naive and memory T cells in vitro and in vivo Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science (Hons) National Autonomous University of Mexico 31-Dec-1987
Master of Science National Autonomous University of Mexico 31-Dec-1988
PhD University of Bristol 01-Aug-1992

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Unspecified Australasian Society for Immunology Member 01-Jan-2000
Unspecified Australian Society for Parasitology Member 01-Jan-2005
Unspecified American Association of Immunologists Member 01-Jan-2000

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Scholarship Howard Hughes International Scholar in Infectious Diseases 31-Dec-2000
Other (Award) Honoray MA, Linacre College, Oxford University 01-Aug-1998
Other (Award) Honorary MA, Keble College Oxford University 01-Aug-1994

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Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Pilot phase III immunotherapy study in early-stage breast cancer patients using oxidized mannan-MUC1 [ISRCTN71711835]
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Breast Cancer Research
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: R27
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • A CD4+ T-cell immune response to a conserved epitope in the circumsporozoite protein correlates with protection from natural Plasmodium falciparum infection and disease
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Nature Medicine
    Volume: 10
    Page numbers: 406-410
    Publisher: Nature America(New York)
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  • A new boost for malaria vaccines
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Trends in Parasitology
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 157-160
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Dendritic cells induce immunity and long-lasting protection against blood-stage malaria despite an in vitro parasite-induced maturation defect
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Infection and Immunity
    Volume: 72
    Page numbers: 5331-5339
    Publisher: American Society for Microbiology(Washington DC)
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  • Short peptide sequences containing MHC class I and/or class II epitopes linked to nano-beads induce strong immunity and inhibition of growth of antigen-specific tumour challenge in mice
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Vaccine
    Volume: 23
    Page numbers: 258-266
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Size-dependent immunogenicity: therapeutic and protective properties of nano-vaccines against tumors
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Immunology
    Volume: 173
    Page numbers: 3148-3154
    Publisher: American Association of Immunologists(Maryland)
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  • Vaccines that facilitate antigen entry into dendritic cells
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Immunology and Cell Biology
    Volume: 82
    Page numbers: 506-516
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Carbohydrate-based targets and vehicles for cancer and infectious vaccines
    Year: 2003
    Book: Immunobiology of carbohydrates
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • Ex vivo interferon-gamma immune response to thrombospondin-related adhesive protein in coastal Kenyans: longevity and risk of plasmodium falciparum infection
    Year: 2003
    Journal: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    Volume: 68
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 421-430
    Publisher: American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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  • A glycopeptide in complex with MHC class I uses the GalNAc residue as an anchor
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    Volume: 100
    Issue: 25
    Page numbers: 15029-15034
    Publisher: National Academy of Sciences(Washington DC)
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  • Aspects of cancer immunotherapy
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Immunology and Cell Biology
    Volume: 81
    Page numbers: 79-85
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Delivery of a heterologous antigen by a registered Salmonella vaccine (STM1)
    Year: 2003
    Journal: FEMS Microbiology Letters
    Volume: 227
    Page numbers: 211-217
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Unusual interactions between MHC, peptide and the T cell receptor
    Year: 2002
    Book: Drug discovery and design: medical aspects
    Publisher: IOS Press(Amsterdam)
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Journal Articles

  • Applications of peptide mimetics in cancer
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Current Medicinal Chemistry
    Volume: 9
    Page numbers: 411-420
    Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers(Hilversum)
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  • Enhanced CD8 T cell immunogenicity and protective efficacy in a mouse malaria model using a recombinant adenoviral vaccine in heterologous prime-boost immunisation regimes
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Vaccine
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 1039-1045
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Immunogenetics and the design of Plasmodium falciparum vaccines for use in malaria-endemic populations
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Investigation
    Volume: 110
    Page numbers: 295-301
    Publisher: American Society of Clinical Investigation Inc(Michigan)
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  • Induction of T helper type 1 and type 2 responses to 19-kilodalton merozoite surface protein 1 in vaccinated healthy volunteers and adults naturally exposed to malaria
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Infection and Immunity
    Volume: 70
    Page numbers: 1417-1421
    Publisher: American Society for Microbiology(Washington DC)
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  • Naturally exposed populations differ in their T1 and T2 response to the circumsporozoite protein of Plasmodium falciparum
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Infection and Immunity
    Volume: 70
    Page numbers: 1468-1474
    Publisher: American Society for Microbiology(Washington DC)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Unique T cell effector functions elicited by Plasmodium falciparum epitopes in malaria-exposed Africans tested by three T cell assays
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Immunology
    Volume: 167
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 4729-4737
    Publisher: American Association of Immunologists(Maryland)
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