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Dr Fiona J Culley
Non- Clinical Lecturer in Respiratory Immunology
National Heart & Lung Institute
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Dr Fiona J Culley
Fiona Culley is a lecturer in the Section of Respiratory Infections, at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London.
Dr Culley obtained her undergraduate degree at Cambridge University and her PhD from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London). Dr Culley moved to Imperial College London to undertake her post-doctoral studies on pulmonary immunology and inflammation, using models of parasite and respiratory virus infection. Dr Culley also used confocal imaging techniques to study mechanisms underlying NK cell activation.
Dr Culley is a member of the MRC and Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, and the Wellcome Trust funded Centre for Respiratory Infection. Her research interests are in understanding how innate immune responses in the lung regulate inflammation and in neonatal immunity and infection. Her research is funded by an MRC New Investigator Award, the BMA and The Wellcome Trust (CRI Director's Awards) and Dr Culley is co-supervisor for MRC and Asthma UK Centre funded PhD student Nazanin Farhadi.
Dr Culley teaches on the Respiratory Sciences module for Biomedical Sciences and Medicine undergraduates. She was awarded a Certificate in Advanced Studies in Learning and Teaching in 2010.
Dr Culley is a committee member of the London Immunology Group, the regional group of the British Society of Immunology.
Selected Publications
Journals
- Culley FJ. (Oct 2009). Natural killer cells in infection and inflammation of the lung. Immunology. 128:151-163. DOI.
- Culley FJ; Johnson M; Evans JH; Kumar S; Crilly R; Casasbuenas J; Schnyder T; Mehrabi M; et alDeonarain MP; Ushakov DS; Braud V; Roth G; Brock R; Kohler K; Davis DM. (Jul 2009). Natural Killer Cell Signal Integration Balances Synapse Symmetry and Migration. PLOS BIOL. 7. DOI.
- Culley FJ; Pollott J; Openshaw PJ. (18 Nov 2002). Age at first viral infection determines the pattern of T cell-mediated disease during reinfection in adulthood. J Exp Med. 196:1381-1386.
