Kate Killick

Kate Killick (born 21 October 1984) is an Irish biologist, and co-author of "Genome-wide transcriptional profiling of peripheral blood leukocytes from cattle infected with Mycobacterium bovis reveals suppression of host immune genes".

Education

Killick received a BA with honours from Trinity College Dublin in Neuroscience, and went on to complete a Ph.D. from University College Dublin in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology.

Work

• "Receptor‐mediated recognition of mycobacterial pathogens": This work discusses current ideas on receptor‐mediated recognition of mycobacterial pathogens by macrophages and dendritic cells. This work was co-authored with Clíona Ní Cheallaigh, Cliona O'Farrelly, Karsten Hokamp, David E. MacHugh, and James Harris.
• "Genome-wide transcriptional profiling of peripheral blood leukocytes from cattle infected with Mycobacterium bovis reveals suppression of host immune genes": This work was co-authored with John A Browne, Stephen DE Park, David A Magee, Irene Martin, Kieran G Meade, Stephen V Gordon, Eamonn Gormley, Cliona O'Farrelly, Karsten Hokamp & David E MacHugh.