Dr. Pablo Cañete was awarded a PhD in Immunology in 2019 under Prof. Carola Vinuesa’s supervision at the John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR), The Australian National University (ANU). During this time he characterised a novel human T cell subset important for modulating antibodies associated with allergic responses. His doctoral research has been recognised by several awards, including the prestigious Dewar Milne prize for immunology, awarded to the most outstanding PhD thesis of Immunology at the JCSMR, ANU. He then continued as a postdoc with Prof. Vinuesa investigating 1) novel tolerance mechanisms and 2) characterising bespoke mouse models of autoimmunity at the Centre for Personalised Immunology. In 2022 he joined Frazer institute with Prof. Di Yu where he hopes to uncover novel approaches for harnessing T cell biology for therapeutic purposes. Pablo’s research vision is to integrate human and mouse immunology together with systems biology with the hope to better understand antibody responses, mechanisms of immune tolerance and autoimmunity.
Journal Article: DECTIN-1: A modifier protein in CTLA-4 haploinsufficiency
Turnbull, Cynthia, Bones, Josiah, Stanley, Maurice, Medhavy, Arti, Wang, Hao, Lorenzo, Ayla May D., Cappello, Jean, Shanmuganandam, Somasundhari, Pandey, Abhimanu, Seneviratne, Sandali, Brown, Grant J, Meng, Xiangpeng, Fulcher, David, Burgio, Gaetan, Man, Si Ming, de Lucas Collantes, Carmen, Gasior, Mercedes, López Granados, Eduardo, Martin, Pilar, Jiang, Simon H., Cook, Matthew C., Ellyard, Julia I., Athanasopoulos, Vicki, Corry, Ben, Canete, Pablo F. and Vinuesa, Carola G. (2023). DECTIN-1: A modifier protein in CTLA-4 haploinsufficiency. Science Advances, 9 (49) ARTN eadi9566, eadi9566. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adi9566
Journal Article: Systemic immunometabolism and responses to vaccines: insights from T and B cell perspectives
Nettelfield, Sam, Yu, Di and Cañete, Pablo F (2023). Systemic immunometabolism and responses to vaccines: insights from T and B cell perspectives. International Immunology, 35 (12), 571-582. doi: 10.1093/intimm/dxad021
Journal Article: CTLA4 protects against maladaptive cytotoxicity during the differentiation of effector and follicular CD4+ T cells
Hao, Yuwei, Miraghazadeh, Bahar, Chand, Rochna, Davies, Ainsley R., Cardinez, Chelisa, Kwong, Kristy, Downes, Morgan B., Sweet, Rebecca A., Cañete, Pablo F., D’Orsogna, Lloyd J., Fulcher, David A., Choo, Sharon, Yip, Desmond, Peters, Geoffrey, Yip, Sonia, Witney, Matthew J., Nekrasov, Maxim, Feng, Zhi-Ping, Tscharke, David C., Vinuesa, Carola G. and Cook, Matthew C. (2023). CTLA4 protects against maladaptive cytotoxicity during the differentiation of effector and follicular CD4+ T cells. Cellular and Molecular Immunology, 20 (7), 1-17. doi: 10.1038/s41423-023-01027-8
Title: Understanding how regulatory T cells suppress the development of self-reactive B cells
(2024–2027) NHMRC IDEAS Grants
(2023–2024) The Children's Hospital Foundation
Temporal tracking of T cell functional differentiation by single-cell RNA-sequencing to inform immunotherapy
Doctor Philosophy
DECTIN-1: A modifier protein in CTLA-4 haploinsufficiency
Turnbull, Cynthia, Bones, Josiah, Stanley, Maurice, Medhavy, Arti, Wang, Hao, Lorenzo, Ayla May D., Cappello, Jean, Shanmuganandam, Somasundhari, Pandey, Abhimanu, Seneviratne, Sandali, Brown, Grant J, Meng, Xiangpeng, Fulcher, David, Burgio, Gaetan, Man, Si Ming, de Lucas Collantes, Carmen, Gasior, Mercedes, López Granados, Eduardo, Martin, Pilar, Jiang, Simon H., Cook, Matthew C., Ellyard, Julia I., Athanasopoulos, Vicki, Corry, Ben, Canete, Pablo F. and Vinuesa, Carola G. (2023). DECTIN-1: A modifier protein in CTLA-4 haploinsufficiency. Science Advances, 9 (49) ARTN eadi9566, eadi9566. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adi9566
Systemic immunometabolism and responses to vaccines: insights from T and B cell perspectives
Nettelfield, Sam, Yu, Di and Cañete, Pablo F (2023). Systemic immunometabolism and responses to vaccines: insights from T and B cell perspectives. International Immunology, 35 (12), 571-582. doi: 10.1093/intimm/dxad021
Hao, Yuwei, Miraghazadeh, Bahar, Chand, Rochna, Davies, Ainsley R., Cardinez, Chelisa, Kwong, Kristy, Downes, Morgan B., Sweet, Rebecca A., Cañete, Pablo F., D’Orsogna, Lloyd J., Fulcher, David A., Choo, Sharon, Yip, Desmond, Peters, Geoffrey, Yip, Sonia, Witney, Matthew J., Nekrasov, Maxim, Feng, Zhi-Ping, Tscharke, David C., Vinuesa, Carola G. and Cook, Matthew C. (2023). CTLA4 protects against maladaptive cytotoxicity during the differentiation of effector and follicular CD4+ T cells. Cellular and Molecular Immunology, 20 (7), 1-17. doi: 10.1038/s41423-023-01027-8
Chen, Zhian, Cui, Yanfang, Yao, Yin, Liu, Bo, Yunis, Joseph, Gao, Xin, Wang, Naiqi, Cañete, Pablo F., Tuong, Zewen Kelvin, Sun, Hongjian, Wang, Hao, Yang, Siling, Wang, Runli, Leong, Yew Ann, Simon Davis, David, Qin, Jiahuan, Liang, Kaili, Deng, Jun, Wang, Conan K., Huang, Yen-Hua, Roco, Jonathan A., Nettelfield, Sam, Zhu, Huaming, Xu, Huajun, Yu, Zhijia, Craik, David, Liu, Zheng, Qi, Hai, Parish, Christopher and Yu, Di (2023). Heparan sulfate regulates IL-21 bioavailability and signal strength that control germinal center B cell selection and differentiation. Science immunology, 8 (80) eadd1728, 1-17. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.add1728
Serrán, Melisa Gorosito, Vernengo, Facundo Fiocca, Almada, Laura, Beccaria, Cristian G., Gazzoni, Yamila, Canete, Pablo F., Roco, Jonathan A., Boari, Jimena Tosello, Ramello, Maria Cecilia, Wehrens, Ellen, Cai, Yeping, Zuniga, Elina I., Montes, Carolina L., Cockburn, Ian A., Rodriguez, Eva V. Acosta, Vinuesa, Carola G. and Gruppi, Adriana (2022). Extrafollicular plasmablasts present in the acute phase of infections express high levels of PD-L1 and are able to limit T cell response. Frontiers in Immunology, 13 828734, 1-13. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.828734
TLR7 gain-of-function genetic variation causes human lupus
Brown, Grant J., Cañete, Pablo F., Wang, Hao, Medhavy, Arti, Bones, Josiah, Roco, Jonathan A., He, Yuke, Qin, Yuting, Cappello, Jean, Ellyard, Julia I., Bassett, Katharine, Shen, Qian, Burgio, Gaetan, Zhang, Yaoyuan, Turnbull, Cynthia, Meng, Xiangpeng, Wu, Phil, Cho, Eun, Miosge, Lisa A., Andrews, T. Daniel, Field, Matt A., Tvorogov, Denis, Lopez, Angel F., Babon, Jeffrey J., López, Cristina Aparicio, Gónzalez-Murillo, África, Garulo, Daniel Clemente, Pascual, Virginia, Levy, Tess ... Vinuesa, Carola G. (2022). TLR7 gain-of-function genetic variation causes human lupus. Nature, 605 (7909), 349-356. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04642-z
Evolution of γ chain cytokines: mechanisms, methods and applications
Antczak, Magdalena, Cañete, Pablo F., Chen, Zhian, Belle, Clémence and Yu, Di (2022). Evolution of γ chain cytokines: mechanisms, methods and applications. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 20, 4746-4755. doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2022.08.050
Deletions in VANGL1 are a risk factor for antibody-mediated kidney disease
Jiang, Simon H., Mercan, Sevcan, Papa, Ilenia, Moldovan, Max, Walters, Giles D., Koina, Mark, Fadia, Mitali, Stanley, Maurice, Lea-Henry, Tom, Cook, Amelia, Ellyard, Julia, McMorran, Brendan, Sundaram, Madhivanan, Thomson, Russell, Canete, Pablo F., Hoy, Wendy, Hutton, Holly, Srivastava, Monika, McKeon, Kathryn, de la Rúa Figueroa, Iñigo, Cervera, Ricard, Faria, Raquel, D'Alfonso, Sandra, Gatto, Mariele, Athanasopoulos, Vicki, Field, Matthew, Mathews, John, Cho, Eun, Andrews, Thomas D. ... Vinuesa, Carola G. (2021). Deletions in VANGL1 are a risk factor for antibody-mediated kidney disease. Cell Reports Medicine, 2 (12) 100475, 100475. doi: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2021.100475
Follicular regulatory T cells produce neuritin to regulate B cells
Gonzalez-Figueroa, Paula, Roco, Jonathan A., Papa, Ilenia, Núñez Villacís, Lorena, Stanley, Maurice, Linterman, Michelle A., Dent, Alexander, Canete, Pablo F. and Vinuesa, Carola G. (2021). Follicular regulatory T cells produce neuritin to regulate B cells. Cell, 184 (7), 1775-1789.e19. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.02.027
COVID-19 Makes B Cells Forget, but T Cells Remember
Cañete, Pablo F. and Vinuesa, Carola G. (2020). COVID-19 Makes B Cells Forget, but T Cells Remember. Cell, 183 (1), 13-15. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.09.013
Class-switch recombination occurs infrequently in germinal centers
Roco, Jonathan A., Mesin, Luka, Binder, Sebastian C., Nefzger, Christian, Gonzalez-Figueroa, Paula, Canete, Pablo F., Ellyard, Julia, Shen, Qian, Robert, Philippe A., Cappello, Jean, Vohra, Harpreet, Zhang, Yang, Nowosad, Carla R., Schiepers, Arien, Corcoran, Lynn M., Toellner, Kai-Michael, Polo, Jose M., Meyer-Hermann, Michael, Victora, Gabriel D. and Vinuesa, Carola G. (2019). Class-switch recombination occurs infrequently in germinal centers. Immunity, 51 (2), 337-350.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2019.07.001
Regulatory roles of IL-10–producing human follicular T cells
Cañete, Pablo F., Sweet, Rebecca A., Gonzalez-Figueroa, Paula, Papa, Ilenia, Ohkura, Naganari, Bolton, Holly, Roco, Jonathan A., Cuenca, Marta, Bassett, Katharine J., Sayin, Ismail, Barry, Emma, Lopez, Angel, Canaday, David H., Meyer-Hermann, Michael, Doglioni, Claudio, Fazekas de St Groth, Barbara, Sakaguchi, Shimon, Cook, Matthew C. and Vinuesa, Carola G. (2019). Regulatory roles of IL-10–producing human follicular T cells. Journal of Experimental Medicine, 216 (8), 1843-1856. doi: 10.1084/jem.20190493
Functional rare and low frequency variants in BLK and BANK1 contribute to human lupus
Jiang, Simon H., Athanasopoulos, Vicki, Ellyard, Julia I., Chuah, Aaron, Cappello, Jean, Cook, Amelia, Prabhu, Savit B., Cardenas, Jacob, Gu, Jinghua, Stanley, Maurice, Roco, Jonathan A., Papa, Ilenia, Yabas, Mehmet, Walters, Giles D., Burgio, Gaetan, McKeon, Kathryn, Byers, James M., Burrin, Charlotte, Enders, Anselm, Miosge, Lisa A., Canete, Pablo F., Jelusic, Marija, Tasic, Velibor, Lungu, Adrian C., Alexander, Stephen I., Kitching, Arthur R., Fulcher, David A., Shen, Nan, Arsov, Todor ... Vinuesa, Carola G. (2019). Functional rare and low frequency variants in BLK and BANK1 contribute to human lupus. Nature Communications, 10 (1) 2201. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-10242-9
TFH-derived dopamine accelerates productive synapses in germinal centres
Papa, Ilenia, Saliba, David, Ponzoni, Maurilio, Bustamante, Sonia, Canete, Pablo F., Gonzalez-Figueroa, Paula, McNamara, Hayley A., Valvo, Salvatore, Grimbaldeston, Michele, Sweet, Rebecca A., Vohra, Harpreet, Cockburn, Ian A., Meyer-Hermann, Michael, Dustin, Michael L., Doglioni, Claudio and Vinuesa, Carola G. (2017). TFH-derived dopamine accelerates productive synapses in germinal centres. Nature, 547 (7663), 318-323. doi: 10.1038/nature23013
Jandl, Christoph, Liu, Sue M., Cañete, Pablo F., Warren, Joanna, Hughes, William E., Vogelzang, Alexis, Webster, Kylie, Craig, Maria E., Uzel, Gulbu, Dent, Alexander, Stepensky, Polina, Keller, Bärbel, Warnatz, Klaus, Sprent, Jonathan and King, Cecile (2017). IL-21 restricts T follicular regulatory T cell proliferation through Bcl-6 mediated inhibition of responsiveness to IL-2. Nature Communications, 8 (1) 14647. doi: 10.1038/ncomms14647
Attenuation of AMPK signaling by ROQUIN promotes T follicular helper cell formation
Ramiscal, Roybel R, Parish, Ian A, Lee-Young, Robert S, Babon, Jeffrey J, Blagih, Julianna, Pratama, Alvin, Martin, Jaime, Hawley, Naomi, Cappello, Jean Y, Nieto, Pablo F, Ellyard, Julia I, Kershaw, Nadia J, Sweet, Rebecca A, Goodnow, Christopher C, Jones, Russell G, Febbraio, Mark A, Vinuesa, Carola G and Athanasopoulos, Vicki (2015). Attenuation of AMPK signaling by ROQUIN promotes T follicular helper cell formation. eLife, 4 (OCTOBER2015) 08698, 1-22. doi: 10.7554/elife.08698
Title: Understanding how regulatory T cells suppress the development of self-reactive B cells
(2024–2027) NHMRC IDEAS Grants
(2023–2024) The Children's Hospital Foundation
Temporal tracking of T cell functional differentiation by single-cell RNA-sequencing to inform immunotherapy
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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