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Biography
Dr Alec Redwood completed a Bachelor of Applied Science with Honours and a PhD researching cytokine responses to fungal infections at Curtin University. He then worked as a Research Assistant for Dr Bruce Robinson in the Department of Medicine before being awarded a Fellowship with the School of Oral Health Sciences at UWA. Dr Redwood became involved in the Pest Animal Control Cooperative Research Centre researching the use of murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) as a vaccine vector for virally vectored immunocontraception. Since 2005 he has been studying various aspects of the fundamental biology of MCMV.
Roles and responsibilities
Dr Redwood is the coordinating supervisor of 3 PhD students and the co-supervisor of another 1 PhD student.
Funding overview
NH&MRC
Teaching overview
Dr Redwood lectures on viral immune evasion in the Masters of Infectious Diseases unit. He also supervises Visnja Madic (PhD), Jackie Robb and Baca Chan (PhD).
Research
Dr Redwood is interested in understanding the interactions between viruses and their hosts, especially how viral genetics control their responses to the host, and how host genetics control their response to the virus. He is currently researching MCMV a common a herpesvirus found in mice that is used as a model for the human equivalent virus. Because most hosts are infected with multiple strains of MCMV Dr Redwood is studying how these strains associate with each other and how this association affects viral pathogenesis.
Keywords
- Immunology—cellular
- Viruses—BACs
- Viruses—herpes
- Viruses—vaccines
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Projects 2003 2021
Merit Award - Projects - Multi-strain Cytomegalovirus Infection - Competition Complementation and Relevance to Transplantation
Redwood, A., Shellam, G. & Walton, S.
1/07/14 → 30/06/15
Project: Research
Merit Award - Projects - Multi-strain Cytomegalovirus Infection - Competition Complementation and Relevance to Transplantation
Redwood, A., Walton, S. & Shellam, G.
Health Department of Western Australia
1/07/14 → 30/06/15
Project: Research
Contraception using recombinant mouse cytomegalovirus as a vaccine vector: Proof of concept study in rats.
Lloyd, M., Redwood, A., Shellam, G. & Smith, L.
1/01/12 → 31/12/12
Project: Research
Determinants of cytomegalovirus salivary gland persistence
Shellam, G., Redwood, A. & Smith, L.
National Health & Medical Research Council NHMRC
1/01/09 → 31/12/11
Project: Research
Research Output 1996 2017
Shared peptide binding of HLA Class i and II alleles associate with cutaneous nevirapine hypersensitivity and identify novel risk allele
Pavlos, R. , McKinnon, E. J. , Ostrov, D. A. , Peters, B. , Buus, S. , Koelle, D. , Chopra, A. , Schutte, R. , Rive, C. , Redwood, A. , Restrepo, S. , Bracey, A. , Kaever, T. , Myers, P. , Speers, E. , Malaker, S. A. , Shabanowitz, J. , Jing, Y. , Gaudieri, S. , Hunt, D. F. & 4 others , 1 Dec 2017, In : Scientific Reports. 7, 1, 8653Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Nevirapine
HLA Antigens
Hypersensitivity
Alleles
Skin
Murine cytomegalovirus strains co-replicate at multiple tissue sites and establish co-persistence in salivary glands in the absence of Ly49H-mediated competition
Mcwhorter, A. R., Smith, L., Shellam, G. & Redwood, A., 1 May 2015, In : Journal of General Virology. 96, p. 1127-1137Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Muromegalovirus
Cytomegalovirus
Salivary Glands
Genetic Recombination
Infection
Inhibition of the TRAIL Death Receptor by CMV Reveals Its Importance in NK Cell-Mediated Antiviral Defense
Verma, S., Loewendorf, A., Wang, Q., Mcdonald, B., Redwood, A. & Benedict, C. A., 2014, In : PLoS Pathogens. 10, p. 1-11Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Molecular Evolution of Murine Cytomegalovirus Genomes
Redwood, A., Shellam, G. & Smith, L., 2013, Cytomegaloviruses: From Molecular Pathogenesis to Intervention. Reddehase, M. J. (ed.). UK: Caister Academic Press, p. 23-38Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Other chapter contribution
Natural killer cell dependent within-host competition arises during multiple MCMV infection: Consequences for viral transmission and evolution
McWhorter, A., Smith, L., Masters, L., Chan, B. C., Shellam, G. & Redwood, A., 2013, In : PLoS Pathogens. 9, 1, p. 13ppResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article
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