Emma Ringqvist

Emma Ringqvist

Research Specialist
Visiting address: Alfred Nobels allé 8, plan 7, 14152 Huddinge
Postal address: H7 Medicin, Huddinge, H7 CIM Flodström-Tullberg, 171 77 Stockholm

About me

  • Post-doc in Research group Tim Willinger. Research area: Macrophage ontology,
    pulmonary health and injury resolution.
    My passion for science and my interest in infection biology, immunology and
    the magic world host-parasite interaction has taken me from initial projects
    as an undergrad on Hepatitis C replication, virulence factors in /Toxoplasma
    gondii/ and /Plasmodium falciparum/ (malaria), a PhD at Uppsala university
    on the molecular mechanisms of how the gastrointestinal parasite /Giardia/
    establishes infection, to New Zealand and hookworm infections in ruminants
    and their effect on the immune system of sheep until I landed in pulmonary
    immunology and the development and activities of Alveolar Macrophages. After
    a 2-year post doc period in the lab of Professor Judith E. Allen at the
    University of Edinburgh, I continued with an independent research line on
    emphysema development and injury resolution in the Nippostrongylus
    brasiliensis model of COPD, at the Respiratory Medicine unit, Department of
    Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet. In 2018, I left my independent
    research and joined first the Research Group of Åsa Wheelock at the same
    department for a postdoctoral project on sorting live monocytes, macrophages
    and T-cells from young adult's with known pulmonary limitations due to
    premature birth (LUNAPRE cohort). From there I have now started a position at
    CIM, Department of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Research Group
    Tim Willinger. My current research project investigate alveolar macrophage
    ontology using humanized mice and primary human cells.
    2015. Wenner-Gren Research Fellow (2 year salary including research funding)
    2010. Wenner-Gren Postdoctoral Fellow (3 year international postdoc).
    Application and interview process, 5% success rate.
    * 2012-2015. Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, Universtiy of
    Edinburgh. Professor Judith E. Allen group. Project: The molecular and
    immunological basis of emphysema development in a rodent hookworm model.
    * 2010-2012. AgResearch, Palmerston North, New Zealand. Equivalent of 1 year
    full time. Project: Immunomodulation of Dendritic Cells by ruminant
    helminths.
    2009. Scholarship. Lennanders stiftelse. 3 months post-doctoral research
    project funding including living cost scholarship.
    2010. PhD in Microbiology. Uppsala University. Thesis title: Host-Pathogen
    Responses during Giardia infections. Supervisor: Prof. Staffan G. Svärd,
    Department of Cell and Molecular Biology.[PMID:16299316]. [1] [PMID:18359106]
    [2]. [PMID:21074536]. [3] [PMID:21276445]. [4]
    2003. MSc in Molecular Biology. Södertörn University College.
    [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16299316
    [2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18359106
    [3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21074536
    [4] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21276445

Research

  • I am working on the ontology and activity of human alveolar macrophages in
    health and disease (chronic bronchitis and COPD), and foremost in the neonate
    life.
    During my postdoc (2012-2015) and following couple of years (2015-2018) I
    studied the molecular pathways of emphysema formation in the Nippostrongylus
    brasiliensis mouse model, and comparing our findings with the molecular
    pattern in emphysematic lung tissue of human chronic obstructive pulmonary
    disease patients.

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