Braun Group
Skin Immunology
Welcome to the Braun Group
My group aims to understand how immune cells in the skin contribute to beneficial steady state immune surveillance or trigger detrimental skin pathology. In particular, we are interested in antigen recognition by CD8+ skin-resident memory T cells.
We're part of the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, and a member of the Immunity Program and Infection Program,
and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Dr Asolina Braun
My global research connections, partners and funding can be viewed on my Monash Research Profile.
If you are a student interested in doing research in our lab, visit Supervisor Connect.
Click the links below to connect with me on ORCID, Google Scholar and LinkedIn.
Our research
The skin is an effective physical barrier between our body and the environment. Cytotoxic T cells located in the skin are on the frontline of immune defences, contributing to pathogen clearance and tumour control. Our group uses immunopeptidomics, proteomics, T cell receptor sequencing, functional T cell studies and spatial transcriptomics approaches to understand beneficial and harmful T cell responses in the skin.
Lab members
We are committed to excellence in research.
Join Our Lab
We're always interested in collaborating with bright and motivated researchers, clinicians and industry. Whether you want to research, study or partner with us to accelerate our discoveries, find out about the work we do.