Mara Gelmetti completed her PhD in Immunology in May 2025 at Queen Mary University London and she is now working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Sequeira lab at Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on the role of the thymus on central tolerance and more specifically on how keratins found in the thymus are crucial to prevent skin inflammatory diseases. Her work combines bioinformatics approaches and phenotypic characterisation with genetic models to investigate the functional function of thymic keratins in T cell development. Previously to her PhD, she worked as a research assistant at King’s College London in the Department of Infectious Diseases, an industrial placement intern at Kymab Ltd. (now Sanofi) and completed my BSc in Pharmacology at the University of Bath.
