David C Tscharke Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2013

David C Tscharke

David Tscharke is a virologist who moonlights as an immunologist, or vice versa (depending on your point of view). He has diverse interests from antigen presentation to CD8+ T cells, to herpes simplex virus (HSV) latency and application of CRISPR/Cas9 to engineering DNA viruses. He got to this point of confusion via a PhD in from University of Adelaide on HSV pathogenesis and CD8+ T cell immunity and postdoctoral experience at the University of Oxford (where he swapped herpes for pox), the US National Institutes of Health, and QIMR in Brisbane. Since 2006 he has been at The Australian National University (ANU) and has had several positions with varying responsibility for research and teaching. Throughout his career he has had the benefit of working with excellent mentors, generous collaborators and brilliant students. With their help he has held a succession of fellowships and is currently Head of the Division of Immunity, Inflammation and Infection at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU.