Gouda, South Holland, Netherlands
Prof Menno van Zelm obtained his PhD from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2007) and held postdoc positions at the University of California San Diego (USA) and the Erasmus MC (the Netherlands), prior to becoming Lab Head at the Erasmus MC (2010). In 2015, he was recruited to Monash University and the Alfred Hospital where he heads the Allergy and Clinical Immunology laboratory of the Department of Immunology. In Aug 2023, he commenced as Head of the Humoral Immune Memory Laboratory in the Dept Immunology of the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam. the Netherlands. Dr. van Zelm has received continuous fellowship support in the Netherlands and Australia (current NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship). In 2010, he received the Heineken Young Scientists Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW). Menno van Zelm is past-chair (2016-2022) of the Nomenclature committee of the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS), current President (2023-) of HCDM, the organisation that assigns CD Nomenclature, and founding director of the JMF Centre for Immunodeficiencies in Melbourne. He runs a Translational Immunology programme, has published >170 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, and is co-inventor on several patent applications. In 2019, he developed technology to detect antigen-specific B-cells in collaboration with Prof Robyn O’Hehir (Alfred Health) and Prof P. Mark Hogarth (Burnet Institute), and currently applies this to evaluate B-cell memory in allergies (NHMRC Ideas grant) and infectious disease, including SARS-CoV-2.
Head of the Allergy and Clinical Immunology laboratory and Deputy Head (research) of the Department of Immunology and Pathology. Prof Van Zelm leads research into formation, durability and plasticity of human immune memory with applications into primary immunodeficiency, COVID-19 vaccination and IgE-mediated allergies
I am Associate Professor in the Dept. Immunology within the Central Clinical School of Momash University at the Alfred Precinct. The research in my group is focuses on adaptive Immunity, and specifically, the generation of a large repertoire of antigen receptors and the antigen-specific adaptive immune responses and memory formation. Some studies are performed with mouse models, whereas the majority of the work deals with human tissue to allow direct translation to disease: immunodeficiencies, chronic inflammatory disease and allergies.
I am Associate Professor in the Dept. Immunology with research lines in Adaptive Immunity. I directly supervise five PhD students, two technicians and several rotation students, and I oversee the high-speed cell sorting and Affymetrix DNA microarray core facilities of the dept. Immunology. The research of my group is focused on the generation of a large repertoire of antigen receptors and the antigen-specific adaptive immune responses and memory formation in health and disease.
I am Group Leader in the unit Molecular Immunology headed by Prof.dr. JJM van Dongen. I directly supervise three PhD students, two technicians and a rotation student, and I oversee the high-speed cell sorting and Affymetrix DNA microarray core facilities of the dept. Immunology. The research of my group is focused on the generation of a large repertoire of antigen receptors and the antigen-specific adaptive immune responses and memory formation.
Studying antibody deficiencies due to mutations in the CD19 or CD81 genes.
Postdoctoral fellow studying chromatin architecture and the generation of antigen receptor diversity