Dr Jason Mooney
Lecturer in Immunology
- College of Science and Engineering
- School of Biological Sciences
- Institute for Immunology and Infection Research
Contact details
- Email: Jason.Mooney@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Ashworth Laboratories
King’s Buildings - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH9 3FL
Qualifications
BSc - Microbiology, University of Tennessee (2006)
PhD - Immunology, University of California Davis (2015)
Research summary
My primary interest is in invasive bacterial infections – how they overcome the innate physical and immunological barriers at mucosal surfaces to invade the tissues and then how they evade systemic immune responses to establish a niche for replication. My current work focuses on malaria co-infection as a risk factor for invasive bacterial disease, specifically the role of coinfection in loss of intestinal integrity and disruption of neutrophil-mediated containment of Salmonella. This research has led to work in animal models (rodent, porcine, non-human primate) and clinical cohorts (UK and The Gambia).