Dr Caroline Weight

Lecturer in Respiratory Infection and Immunity

Research Overview

Respiratory pathogens must interact with and negotiate colonisation of the specialised epithelial cells that line the nose. These cells form a protective barrier and contact with pathogens triggers immune responses that lead to production of protective immunity. This process changes with age, environmental factors, and the respiratory microbiome. We use state-of-the-art models and advanced imaging technology to study how interactions of bacteria such as Streptococcus pneumoniae affect the respiratory epithelium.

The Gut Barrier: Protecting you from Invasion!
Oral presentation

Human Based Models: Stem Cells and Organoids
Invited talk

Advancing technologies and physiologically relevant cell culture models to study complex human respiratory infections
Invited talk

Advancing technologies and physiologically relevant cell culture models to study complex human respiratory infections
Invited talk

Colonisation of Streptococcus pneumoniae in the human nasopharynx
Invited talk

Liz Jones
Hosting a Non-Academic Visitor

The Gut Barrier: Protecting YOU from invasion!
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

The Gut Barrier: Protecting you from Invasion!
Oral presentation

First responders to Streptococcus pneumoniae colonisation: the role of the human respiratory epithelium
Invited talk

First responders to Streptococcus pneumoniae colonisation: the role of the human respiratory epithelium
Invited talk

Division of Infection and Immunity (External organisation)
Member of Advisory Panel

FURNESS STEM SHOW 2023
Other

London Infection Postdoc Network Symposium
Participation in conference - Academic

Europneumo2023
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Immunotherapy Advances (Journal)
Editorial activity

  • Microbes, Pathogens and Immunity