Speech Title: Distinct Allergen-Specific CD4+ T Cell Immune Responses and Gut Microbial Association Prevail in Pediatric Cow Milk Allergy Endotypes
Biography: Dr. Augustine received her PhD in Biotechnology from the National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, India in 2017. In 2018, she moved to Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar as a PostDoctoral Fellow. She has more than 14 years of research experience in the field of cellular and molecular biology with extensive background in CD4+ T cell simulation, CD4+ T cell phenotyping, detection of rare antigen-specific T cells and cytokine profiling and is skilled in flow cytometry, multiplexed cytokine profiling and several other immunoassays. She also has good experience in microbiome studies and 16s rRNA sequencing. Currently, she is running an institutional grant-funded projected on non-IgE mediated cow milk allergy.