Dr. Lukasz Kedzierski

Department of Microbiology and Immunology

University of Melbourne, Australia

Senior Research Fellow

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

2002 Ph.D., Monash University, Microbiology

1996 B.Sc., Monash University, Microbiology

Publications (Selected)

1. Garstka, M. A., Kedzierski, L., & Maj, T. (2025). Diabetes can impact cellular immunity in solid tumors. Trends in Immunology, 46(4), 295-309.
2. Foo, I. J. H., Cabug, A. F., Gilbertson, B., Fazakerley, J. K., Kedzierska, K., & Kedzierski, L. (2025). Simultaneous coinfection with influenza virus and an arbovirus impedes influenza‐specific but not Semliki Forest virus–specific responses. Immunology and Cell Biology, 103(4), 383-400.
3. Foo, I. J., Chua, B. Y., Chang, S. Y., Jia, X., van der Eerden, A., Fazakerley, J. K., ... & Kedzierski, L. (2025). Prior influenza virus infection alleviates an arbovirus encephalitis by reducing viral titer, inflammation, and cellular infiltrates in the central nervous system. Journal of Virology, e02108-24.
4. Almeida, C. F., Gully, B. S., Jones, C. M., Kedzierski, L., Gunasinghe, S. D., Rice, M. T., ... & Godfrey, D. I. (2024). Direct recognition of an intact foreign protein by an αβ T cell receptor. Nature Communications, 15(1), 8816.
5. Kloosterman, D. J., Erbani, J., Boon, M., Farber, M., Handgraaf, S. M., Ando-Kuri, M., ... & Akkari, L. (2024). Macrophage-mediated myelin recycling fuels brain cancer malignancy. Cell, 187(19), 5336-5356.
6. Jia, X., Crawford, J. C., Gebregzabher, D., Monson, E. A., Mettelman, R. C., Wan, Y., ... & Kedzierska, K. (2024). High expression of oleoyl-ACP hydrolase underpins life-threatening respiratory viral diseases. Cell, 187(17), 4586-4604.
7. Foo, I. J. H., Chua, B. Y., Clemens, E. B., Chang, S. Y., Jia, X., McQuilten, H. A., ... & Kedzierski, L. (2024). Prior infection with unrelated neurotropic virus exacerbates influenza disease and impairs lung T cell responses. Nature Communications, 15(1), 2619.
8. Hall, V. G., Nguyen, T. H., Allen, L. F., Rowntree, L. C., Kedzierski, L., Chua, B. Y., ... & Teh, B. W. (2023, November). Evolution of humoral and cellular immunity post–breakthrough coronavirus disease 2019 in vaccinated patients with hematologic malignancy receiving tixagevimab-cilgavimab. In Open Forum Infectious Diseases (Vol. 10, No. 11, p. ofad550). US: Oxford University Press.
9. Hall, V. G., Lim, C., Saunders, N. R., Klimevski, E., Nguyen, T. H. O., Kedzierski, L., ... & Teh, B. W. (2023). Breakthrough COVID-19 is mild in vaccinated patients with hematological malignancy receiving tixagevimab-cilgavimab as pre-exposure prophylaxis. Leukemia & Lymphoma, 64(9), 1600-1604.
10. Rowntree, L. C., Nguyen, T. H., Kedzierski, L., Neeland, M. R., Petersen, J., Crawford, J. C., ... & Kedzierska, K. (2022). SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell memory with common TCRαβ motifs is established in unvaccinated children who seroconvert after infection. Immunity, 55(7), 1299-1315.
11. Zhang, W., Chua, B. Y., Selva, K. J., Kedzierski, L., Ashhurst, T. M., Haycroft, E. R., ... & Kedzierska, K. (2022). SARS-CoV-2 infection results in immune responses in the respiratory tract and peripheral blood that suggest mechanisms of disease severity. Nature communications, 13(1), 2774.
12. Gordon, C. L., Smibert, O. C., Holmes, N. E., Chua, K. Y., Rose, M., Drewett, G., ... & Trubiano, J. A. (2021, September). Defective severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 immune responses in an immunocompromised individual with prolonged viral replication. In Open forum infectious diseases (Vol. 8, No. 9, p. ofab359). US: Oxford University Press.
13. Farr, R. J., Rootes, C. L., Rowntree, L. C., Nguyen, T. H., Hensen, L., Kedzierski, L., ... & Stewart, C. R. (2021). Altered microRNA expression in COVID-19 patients enables identification of SARS-CoV-2 infection. PLoS pathogens, 17(7), e1009759.
14. Nguyen, T. H., Rowntree, L. C., Petersen, J., Chua, B. Y., Hensen, L., Kedzierski, L., ... & Kedzierska, K. (2021). CD8+ T cells specific for an immunodominant SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid epitope display high naive precursor frequency and TCR promiscuity. Immunity, 54(5), 1066-1082.
15. Koutsakos, M., Rowntree, L. C., Hensen, L., Chua, B. Y., Van De Sandt, C. E., Habel, J. R., ... & Kedzierska, K. (2021). Integrated immune dynamics define correlates of COVID-19 severity and antibody responses. Cell Reports Medicine, 2(3).

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