Qiushui He
Professor
Institute of Biomedicine
University of Turku
Areas of expertise
Bacterial infections, Diagnostics, Vaccines and Clinical Immunology
Research
The research interests of HE lab focus on the respiratory bacterial pathogens, human immunity and genetic susceptibility to infectious diseases. We study cell-mediated and antibody responses after pertussis vaccinations and infections, and impact of gut microbiome on vaccine responses in children and adults; we study why some children are more often to have respiratory infections and asthma and some not, and the impact of genetic variations in innate immune genes. As our laboratory serves as the Finnish national reference laboratory for pertussis and diphtheria, we study changes in Bordetella pertussis and Corynebacterium diphtheriae at both genome and protein levels. We are also developing novel point of care tests for diagnosis of pertussis and other bacterial infections. Since 2005 the research group has been leading two European networks EUpertstrain and EUPert-LabNet.
Bacterial infections, Diagnostics, Vaccines and Clinical Immunology
Research
The research interests of HE lab focus on the respiratory bacterial pathogens, human immunity and genetic susceptibility to infectious diseases. We study cell-mediated and antibody responses after pertussis vaccinations and infections, and impact of gut microbiome on vaccine responses in children and adults; we study why some children are more often to have respiratory infections and asthma and some not, and the impact of genetic variations in innate immune genes. As our laboratory serves as the Finnish national reference laboratory for pertussis and diphtheria, we study changes in Bordetella pertussis and Corynebacterium diphtheriae at both genome and protein levels. We are also developing novel point of care tests for diagnosis of pertussis and other bacterial infections. Since 2005 the research group has been leading two European networks EUpertstrain and EUPert-LabNet.
