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Marion Bonnet   PhD

Dr Marion Bonnet

PhD

MRC Research Fellow

School of Medicine

Email
BonnetM@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29206 87302
Campuses
Henry Wellcome Building for Biomedical Research, Room 3F08, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF14 4XN

Overview

I am an MRC Research Fellow in Molecular and Cellular Medicine in the Division of Infection & Immunity at the School of Medicine. My laboratory studies the role of programmed necrosis cell death, alarmins and innate immunity in skin and joint inflammation.

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Research

Our lab uses  in vivo models together with clinical samples to decipher the molecular mechanisms of cell death-induced skin and joint inflammation.

 

Programmed necrosis and alarmins in inflammation

Long considered a passive form of cell death, necrosis has recently been shown to be a regulated process, activated by a variety of endogenous or exogenous stimuli, such a Death Receptors (DRs), interferons (IFNs), or Toll-like Receptor (TLRs). Necrotic death is highly pro-inflammatory due to the release of intracellular molecules, called alarmins or Danger Associated Molecular Patterns (DAMPs). Necroptosis is the best characterised form of programmed necrosis and has been shown to trigger inflammation in numerous organs, in particular in barrier epithelia (skin, colon, kidney). It is regulated by the necrosome complex, composed of kinases RIPK1 and RIPK3 and their substrate, pseudo-kinase MLKL.

Using genetic approaches and in vivo models, our work aims at elucidating the role of programmed necrosis and alarmins, as well as deciphering the molecular regulation of programmed necrosis  in inflammatory diseases, in collaboration with clinicians, to identify early biomarkers and novel therapeutic targets for personalised medicine.

 

Biography

Honours and awards

  • 2017: MRC New Investigator Research Grant
  • 2014: Excellence Research Chair (Co-I), Universite Europeenne de Bretagne
  • 2012: European Skin Research Foundation Award

Professional memberships

  • British Society for Investigative Dermatology (BSID)
  • European Society for Dermatological Research (ESDR)
  • European Cell Death Organisation (ECDO)

Academic positions

  • Excellence Research Chair (Co-I), Institut de Recherche Sante-Environnmenet-Travail IRSET), Universite Rennes-I (Rennes, France)
  • Senior Scientist, INSERM U976, Hopital St-Louis (Paris, France)
  • Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Cologne (Cologne, Germany)

Committees and reviewing

  • 2023: DII EDHR Committee
  • 2022: Guest Editor and Review Editor, Frontiers in Immunology

Supervisions

Cell death

Inflammation

Skin biology

Arthritis

Current supervision

Africa Fernandez Nasarre

Africa Fernandez Nasarre

Research student

Past projects

Damage-associated molecular patterns in necroptosis-dependent skin inflammation.

Research themes

Specialisms

  • Genetic immunology
  • Molecular biology
  • Cell Biology
  • Dermatology