Jenny Regan (PI and Senior Lecturer in Immunology)
I am interested in how immunity affects physiology throughout the lifecourse, and how this interacts with sex and nutrition. After a BSc Honours degree in Biology at the University of Sussex, a short stint as a research technician, and a long period of globe-wandering, I joined Prof Steve Wilson’s lab at UCL. Here, I earnt my PhD in Developmental Neurobiology (2002-08), studying the processes that lateralize the vertebrate brain. I moved fields and countries to make the journey from migrating neurons to migrating macrophages, joining Prof Antonio Jacinto’s lab at the IMM in Lisbon to work on immunity in Drosophila as an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow (2008-11). I completed my postdoctoral training in Prof Linda Partridge’s lab at UCL (and a short, enjoyable period in her lab at MPI-AGE, Cologne), working within the FP7-funded biogerontology consortium IDEAL to understand sex dimorphisms in ageing of immune tissues such as the gut (2012-17). I started my lab in 2017 in the Institute of Immunology and Infection at the University of Edinburgh, where I work closely with colleagues in the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, and with the mighty Drosophila, to understand the interaction of immunity, sex, and ageing. I am powered by music and cider, and often wish I was reading, running, or swimming in the sea.
