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University of Otago

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5.04/23/2026

Encourages students to explore new ideas.

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About Thiloma

Thiloma Liyanage is an Assistant Research Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Health Sciences Division, at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. She earned a Masters of Veterinary Medicine from Chungnam National University from September 2018 to August 2020 and completed her undergraduate field of study at the University of Peradeniya from October 2011 to December 2015. Her research interests encompass veterinary infectious diseases, immunology of infectious diseases, zebrafish as a model organism, immunomodulation, next-generation sequencing, innate immunity, microRNA regulation, recombinant protein expression and purification, cell culture, and co-immunoprecipitation. At the University of Otago, she contributes to projects on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell immunotherapy and host-pathogen interactions, including the role of host GTPases in controlling bacterial dissemination.