Institute for Molecular Bioscience

Mr Damien Bierschenk

Higher degree by research (PhD) student
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
+61 7 334 62356

Damiën obtained his Bachelor degree in life sciences in 2011 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. After receiving his degree he worked as a research assistant in the lab of Willem van Schaik at the University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands. During this time Damiën co-authored various papers revolving around functional genomics of the gut pathogen Enterococcus faecium. He left the van Schaik lab to pursue a Masters degree in Biomedicine at the Karolinska institute in Stockholm, Sweden with a focus on immunology and microbiology. After receiving his Masters, Damiën joined the Inflammasome lab in October 2014 as a PhD candidate where he works on the activation of the inflammasome pathway by Salmonella.

Publications

Journal Articles (3)

Journal Articles

Bierschenk, Damien, Boucher, Dave and Schroder, Kate (2016). Salmonella-induced inflammasome activation in humans. Molecular Immunology, 86, 38-43. doi: 10.1016/j.molimm.2016.11.009
Bollampalli, Vishnu P., Harumi Yamashiro, Livia, Feng, Xiaogang, Bierschenk, Damien, Gao, Yu, Blom, Hans, Henriques-Normark, Birgitta, Nylen, Susanne and Rothfuchs, Antonio Gigliotti (2015). BCG skin infection triggers IL-1R-MyD88-dependent migration of EpCAMlow CD11bhigh skin dendritic cells to draining lymph node during CD4+ T-cell priming. PLoS Pathogens, 11 (10) e1005206, 1-22. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005206
Baker, Paul J., Boucher, Dave, Bierschenk, Damien, Tebartz, Christina, Whitney, Paul G., D'Silva, Damian B, Tanzer, Marco J., Monteleone, Mercedes, Robertson, Avril A.B., Cooper, Matthew A., Alvarez-Diaz, Silvia, Herold, Marco J., Bedoui, Sammy, Schroder, Kate and Masters, Seth L. (2015). NLRP3 inflammasome activation downstream of cytoplasmic LPS recognition by both caspase-4 and caspase-5. European Journal of Immunology, 45 (10), 2918-2926. doi: 10.1002/eji.201545655