Dr Gabriele Braun
Senior Lecturer in Parasite Immunology
School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine,
University of Bristol, Medical Sciences Building,
Bristol, BS8 1TD
phone: +44 (0)117 33 12075 (internal 12075)
email: g.braun@bristol.ac.uk
Research interests
- Mechanisms of ocular autoimmunity in infection
- The role of secreted vesicles and the function of hr44 in the maintenance of immune privilege
- Role of secreted vesicles in evasion of anti tumour responses
Selected publications
- McKechnie, N.M., King, B.C.R., Fletcher, E. and Braun, G. (2006) Fas-ligand is stored in secretory lysosomes of ocular barrier epithelia and released with microvesicles. Exp. Eye Res. 83, 304-314.
- McKechnie, N.M., Copland, D.A. and Braun, G.J. (2003) Hr44 secreted with exosomes: Loss from ciliary epithelium in response to inflammation. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 44(6) 2650-2656.
- McKechnie, N.M., Gürr, W., Yamada, H., Copland, D.A. and Braun, G.J. (2002) Antigenic Mimicry: Onchocerca volvulus Antigen-Specific T Cells and Ocular Inflammation. Invest. Ophthal and Vis. Sci. 43, 411-418.
- Graham, S.P., Wu, Y., HenkleDuehrsen, K., Lustigman, S., Unnasch, T.R., Braun, G.J., Williams, S.A., McCarthy, J., Trees, A.J. and Bianco, A.E. (1999) Patterns of Onchocerca volvulus recombinant antigen recognition in a bovine model of oncocerciasis. Parasitology. 119, 603-612.