Dr Manon Chauvin
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Manon Chauvin completed her PhD in 2024 at the 'Centre d'Immunologie et des Maladies Infectieuses' (CIMI-Paris) in Paris, France, under the supervision of Dr Delphine Sauce. Her doctoral research investigated immune dysregulation in older adults following acute physiological stress, such as hip fracture and severe infection, with a focus on identifying biomarkers of poor clinical outcomes.
She continued in the same laboratory for a further year as a postdoctoral researcher before joining the Malaghan Institute in 2026, where she works in Dr Michelle Linterman's laboratory.
Current projects
Manon studies the germinal centre, the specialised immune structure in which high-quality antibody responses are generated. She is interested in how the cells within it cooperate to support antibody production following vaccination, why this response weakens with age, and what vaccine designs might counter that decline.
Research interests
"Ageing does not affect us all in the same way, and neither does our immunity. What draws me to immunology is this variability: two people of the same age can mount profoundly different responses to the same infection, or the same vaccine. I am interested in understanding how the immune system is remodelled over a lifetime, and why some of us retain a capacity for robust responses while others gradually lose it. My hope is that by identifying the biomarkers that capture these differences, we can move beyond chronological age as a measure of immune health, and design vaccines and interventions that support healthy ageing for everyone."
