Dr Sabine Piller interviewed by Ms Marian Heard
TitleDr Sabine Piller interviewed by Ms Marian Heard
Reference240000100
Date2001
Scope and ContentVideo interview and transcript of interview.
Sabine Piller was born in 1970 in Vienna, Austria. In 1991 she completed a degree at the University of Vienna, majoring in zoology, botany, chemistry and physics. She moved to the USA for further studies and in 1993 received an MSc from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) where she researched the gill physiology of marine crabs. From 1993-94 Piller worked in the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Vienna.
Piller continued her studies of ion channels at the Australian National University, working on a protein of HIV named Vpr. Her PhD research, completed in 1998, was important in that it was the first time any HIV protein had been shown to function as an ion channel. From 1998-2000 Piller returned to UAB as a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for AIDS Research. Piller returned to Australia in 2000 when she was awarded a Young Investigator Award from the Centre for Immunology (CFI), the research campus of St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. As a senior research officer/group head she is working on several projects involving Vpr and gp41. In addition to her work at CFI she is simultaneously adjunct lecturer in the Department of Medicine of the University of New South Wales and visiting fellow in the Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR).
Sabine Piller was born in 1970 in Vienna, Austria. In 1991 she completed a degree at the University of Vienna, majoring in zoology, botany, chemistry and physics. She moved to the USA for further studies and in 1993 received an MSc from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) where she researched the gill physiology of marine crabs. From 1993-94 Piller worked in the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Vienna.
Piller continued her studies of ion channels at the Australian National University, working on a protein of HIV named Vpr. Her PhD research, completed in 1998, was important in that it was the first time any HIV protein had been shown to function as an ion channel. From 1998-2000 Piller returned to UAB as a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for AIDS Research. Piller returned to Australia in 2000 when she was awarded a Young Investigator Award from the Centre for Immunology (CFI), the research campus of St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. As a senior research officer/group head she is working on several projects involving Vpr and gp41. In addition to her work at CFI she is simultaneously adjunct lecturer in the Department of Medicine of the University of New South Wales and visiting fellow in the Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR).
LanguageEnglish
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Persons keyword Sabine Piller, Marian Heard
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