Dr Jennifer Boer is the Theme Leader for Immunity and Metabolism within the Accelerator for Translational Research and Clinical Trials (ATRACT) centre and a research fellow in the Cancer Aging and Vaccines Laboratory (CAVA). Jennifer holds a PhD in NeuroOncology from the University Medical Centre of Groningen (UMCG).

Jennifer’s translational research centres on leveraging high-dimensional transcriptomics and big data methodologies to elucidate the complex immunomodulatory effects of both conventional and nanoparticle-based vaccines across the critical domains of infectious diseases and oncology, with particular focus on age and sex differences. Her profound cross-disciplinary expertise spans biotechnology, immunology/vaccinology and advanced bioinformatics. She has been recognised with competitive research accolades, including a 10X Genomics single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq) fellowship and several major supercomputer merit allocations, such as 2 consecutive awards of the RACE Merit Allocation Scheme and the NCI Adaptor Grant (with over ~250kSUs).

Jennifer is the co-founder and co-leader of the RMIT Bioinformatics Platform and the founder and leader of the graduate course, Bioinformatics and Multi-omics Analysis. She serves as a Board Member on the RMIT Research Compute Governance (RCG) Committee, the Australian Society of Immunology (ASI) Systems Immunology Victorian/Tasmanian State Representative, and contributes expert bioinformatics/biostatistics functions to advisory boards in industry.