Online Guest Lecture: Biological Sex’s Impact on Immunity

Speaker: Dr. Camila Consiglio

Affiliations: Assistant Professor in Systems Immunology Lab, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS), Lund University, Sweden

Date: 7th March 2025 

Time: at 11:00 a.m. Estonian time (10:00 a.m. Swedish time)

Location: Online

Zoom link: Join here

Bio: Dr. Camila Consiglio is a Data-Driven Life Sciences (DDLS) fellow, assistant professor, and group leader of the Systems Immunology Lab at Lund University (Sweden). Originally from Brazil, Dr. Consiglio obtained her PhD in Immunology and Microbiology at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (Buffalo, USA), with a short stay at Institut Pasteur (Paris, France), where she investigated how sex hormone signaling influences immune responses in cancer and infections. Dr. Consiglio joined Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden) as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in 2020, and applied computational methods to investigate human antiviral immunity, having characterized the immune landscape associated with SARS-CoV-2 viral infection in children and adults, and immunological adaptations during masculinizing hormone therapy. Dr. Consiglio was recruited to Lund University in January 2023 as a DDLS fellow in Infection Biology and Epidemiology. Throughout her career, Dr. Consiglio has obtained funding to profile the human immune system using systems immunology approaches (2024 Swedish Research Council, 2023 Crafoord, 2021 Michelson Prize, 2021 H2020-MSCA), with a track-record on systems immunology and sex differences in immunity (Laksmikanth*, Consiglio* et al, Nature 2024; Consiglio et al, Cell, 2020; Consiglio et al, Cancer Immunology Research, 2020), and recent recognition of her work in systems immunology of sex differences in immunity (2023 European Society of Reproductive Immunology, Clinical Young Investigator Award). At Lund University, the Consiglio Lab combines high throughput multiomics technologies with state-of-the-art computational methods to understand mechanisms underlying sex differences in human immunity.