Profile
Marios Koutsakos
The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Australia
Winner of the Early Career Scientist Award
Talk Title: Vaccine strategies against the antigenic space of influenza B viruses
Dr Marios Koutsakos completed undergraduate and post-graduate studies at Imperial College in London. He subsequently undertook a PhD and post-doctoral training in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, focusing on understanding protective immunity to influenza B viruses He is now a group leader at the Doherty Institute, working on dissecting the antigenic evolution of influenza viruses as well as the evolution of antibody-mediated immunity to influenza viruses in order to improve vaccine design.