Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow
Education:
Ph.D., B.S., University of Melbourne, Australia
Biography
Dr. Gonelli’s research focuses on determining vaccination strategies to induce the generation of protective immune responses against HIV infection. He has a particular emphasis on the use of immune complexes, a combination of soluble antigens and antibodies that can better interact with and activate cells of the immune system that soluble antigen alone, as vaccine immunogens. These immune complex immunogens have been shown to enhance the elicitation of cytotoxic T cell responses and redirect the antibody response away from non-protective epitopes. His work also investigates mechanistically how these immune complexes traffic and engage with immune cells in lymphoid tissues.