Miss Rachel Peiris
PhD Student
Preclinical Critical Care Unirt
The Florey Institute
rachel.peiris@florey.edu.au
Research Activities
I am currently a 3rd year PhD Student who's thesis is unravelling therapeutics to reverse immunosuppression in Sepsis.I utilise small and large animal models to test such therapeutics and assess the effects on the innate immune system using flow cytometry.
Techniques/Expertise
- Sepsis large animal models
- Sepsis small animal models
- Immunohistochemistry
- Electrophysiology - recording of nerve activity in-vivo
- Flow Cytometry
- Microbiology - Bacteriostatic and Bactericidal work. Colony Forming Units Assay
Disease Models
- Established sepsis in sheep
- Early sepsis in rats