• Question: How many different type of cells do you know?

    Asked by 635sysb37 to Steph, Carmen on 18 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Stephanie Dyson

      Stephanie Dyson answered on 18 Mar 2015:

      I only really know about B-cells, T-cells, Phagocytes (macrophages and Dendritic cells, the ones that “eat” bacteria) and a little bit about stromal cells. I have had to draw diagrams explaining how each of these cells work to put together my model. It is probably true that modellers understand cell behaviour better than biologists (unless they only look at one type of cell) because we have to!

      Steph

    • Photo: Carmen Denman

      Carmen Denman answered on 19 Mar 2015:

      I think more about neutrophils and the innate immune response, and then T cells doro a memory response to my vaccines. I spend a lot of time working with monkey liver cells and human lung epithelial cells too!

      Cheers!
      Carmen

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