Dr Jennifer Regan
Lecturer in Immunology
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- Institute of Immunology and Infection
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 6513630
- Email: Jenny.Regan@ed.ac.uk
- ResearchGate profile
Address
- Street
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Institute of Immunology & Infection Research
Ashworth Laboratories Room 1.11
Charlotte Auerbach Road - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH9 3FL
Background
2017 Visiting Postdoctoral Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
2012 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Healthy Ageing, University College London, UK
2008 EMBO Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal
2002 PhD in Developmental Neurobiology, University College London, UK
Qualifications
2008 PhD Developmental Neurobiology, University College London
Research summary
Women have stronger immune responses than do men to most infections, but suffer from greater levels of autoimmunity, and this sex difference is apparent throughout the animal kingdom. We use live imaging and the elegant genetics possible in Drosophila to understand how dynamic behaviors of immune cells differ between sexes, and how these affect the response to infection, inflammation, ageing and survival.