Faculty of Veterinary Science Research Areas

Staff Profile:

Associate Professor Jean-Pierre Scheerlinck BSc (Hons), MSc, DipEd, PhD, MBA, FAICD
Director, Centre for Animal Biotechnology

Associate Professor Scheerlinck joined the Centre for Animal Biotechnology in 2000 and became the Director of the Centre in 2006. He was previously employed as a Project Leader at the CRC for Vaccine Technology Unit, CSIRO Animal Health, and as a Post-doctoral fellow at both the Immunoparasitology Unit, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, and the Immunology Unit, International Livestock Research Institute (Nairobi, Kenya).

Contact details:
Telephone: +613 8344 4441
Facsimile: +613 9347 4083
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Appointments:
Deputy Head of Department – Parkville

Field of Expertise:
Cellular Immunology

Research Interests:
Vaccines
Cytokines
Adjuvants

Current Research Projects:
Development of novel vaccine delivery systems for mucosal immunisation.
Improvement of DNA vaccination in a large animal model.
Investigating of novel adjuvants.

Member of Research Groups:
Centre for Animal Biotechnology

Selected Publications:

Scheerlinck J-P. Y. and. D. L. V. Greenwood (2008). Virus-sized vaccine delivery systems. Drug Discovery Today 13, 882-887

Greenwood D.L.V., K. Dynon, M. Kalkanidis, S. Xiang, M. Plebanski, J-P. Y. Scheerlinck (2008). Vaccination against Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus using peptides conjugated to nano-beads. Vaccine 26, 2706-2713

Scheerlinck J-P. Y, K. J. Snibson, V. M. Bowles, P. Sutton (2008). Biomedical applications of sheep models: From asthma to vaccines. Trends Biotechnol 26, 259-266.

Yen H-H. and J-P. Y. Scheerlinck (2007). Co-delivery of plasmid-encoded cytokines modulates the immune response to a DNA vaccine delivered by in vivo electroporation. Vaccine 25:14, 2575-82

Scheerlinck J-P. Y., S. Gekas, H-H. Yen, S. Edwards, M. Pearse, A. Coulter and P. Sutton (2006). Local immune response following nasal delivery of an adjuvanted influenza vaccine. Vaccine 24, 3929-3936

Scheerlinck J-P. Y., S. Gloster, A. Gamvrellis, P. L. Mottram and M. Plebanski (2006). Systemic immune responses in sheep, induced by a novel nano-bead adjuvant. Vaccine 24, 1124-1131

Scheerlinck J.-P. Y. (2001). Genetic adjuvants for DNA vaccines. Vaccine 19:17-19, 2647-2656

Windon R., P. J. Chaplin, L. Beezum, A. Coulter, R. Cahill, W. Kimpton, A. Sjölander, D. Drane, J. Tennent and J-P. Y. Scheerlinck (2000). Induction of lymphocyte recruitment in the absence of a detectable immune response. Vaccine 19:4-5, 572-578.

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