Rama Dhenni

Experience

• 2024–present
  Research Officer, Burnet Institute
• 2025–present
  Adjunct Research Associate, Monash University
• 2023–2024
  Research Officer, Garvan Institute of Medical Research
• 2018–2023
  PhD Candidate in Immunology, Garvan Institute of Medical Research + UNSW, Sydney
• 2016–2018
  Research Assistant, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology
• 2014–2016
  Graduate Research Student, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
• 2008–2014
  Research Assistant, Mochtar Riady Institute for Nanotechnology, Molecular Epidemiology Division

Education

• 2023 
  UNSW, Sydney, PhD in Immunology
• 2016 
  University of Cincinnati, OH, USA, Master of Science/Immunology
• 2008 
  Universitas Indonesia, Bachelor of Science/Biology

Publications

• 2025
  Macrophages direct location-dependent recall of B cell memory to vaccination, Cell
• 2023
  β-cell function is regulated by metabolic and epigenetic programming of islet-associated macrophages, involving Axl, Mertk, and TGFβ receptor signaling, iScience
• 2023
  Apoptotic cell fragments locally activate tingible body macrophages in the germinal center, Cell
• 2023
  Minimally invasive longitudinal intravital imaging of cellular dynamics in intact long bone, Nature Protocols
• 2023
  Tracking the clonal dynamics of SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells in children and adults with mild/asymptomatic COVID-19, Clinical Immunology
• 2022
  EmBmem: will the real memory B cell please stand up?, Trends in Immunology
• 2021
  Comparative cytokine profiling identifies common and unique serum cytokine responses in acute chikungunya and dengue virus infection, BMC Infectious Diseases
• 2020
  Rickettsia felis identified in two fatal cases of acute meningoencephalitis, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• 2020
  Absence of Evidence of Zika Virus Infection in Cord Blood and Urine from Newborns with Congenital Abnormalities, Indonesia, The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
• 2020
  The geography of memory B cell reactivation in vaccine-induced immunity and in autoimmune disease relapses, Immunological Reviews
• 2020
  Japanese encephalitis virus infection in non-encephalitic acute febrile illness patients, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• 2019
  Birth prevalence and characteristics of congenital cytomegalovirus infection in an urban birth cohort, Jakarta, Indonesia, International Journal of Infectious Diseases
• 2018
  Isolation and complete genome analysis of neurotropic dengue virus serotype 3 from the cerebrospinal fluid of an encephalitis patient, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• 2018
  Detection of central nervous system viral infections in adults in Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, PLoS One
• 2018
  Whole genome sequencing of Indonesian dengue virus isolates using next-generation sequencing, Indonesian Journal of Biotechnology
• 2018
  Zika Virus Seropositivity in 1–4-Year-Old Children, Indonesia, 2014, Emerging Infectious Diseases
• 2017
  Chikungunya fever outbreak identified in North Bali, Indonesia, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
• 2013
  High prevalence of hepatitis B virus genotype C/C1 in the Minangkabau ethnic group in Indonesia, Virology Journal
• 2011
  Low Prevalence of Hepatitis B Virus Pre-S Deletion Mutation in Indonesia, Journal of Medical Virology
• 2010
  Genotype diversity of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in HCV-associated liver disease patients in Indonesia, Liver International
• 2009
  Hepatitis B virus genotypes/subgenotypes in voluntary blood donors in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Virology Journal