Laurence Macia
Charles Perkins Centre, School of medical sciences, University of Sydney, Australia
Biography
Laurence Macia is a Group Leader at the Charles Perkins Centre, School of Medicine of the University of Sydney. She has published over 30 articles in journals such as Nature Communication and Nature Reviews Immunology. Her research interest is the impact of diet on gut microbiota and development of inflammatory diseases. She has obtained her PhD in 2006 at the Pasteur Institute of Lille in France where she studied the inter-relation between metabolism and immunity. She has then worked at the Garvan Institute and at Monash University in Professor Mackay’s Lab to investigate the impact of diet on the development of Western diseases.