Dr Larisa Labzin
of School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
UQ Amplify Fellow
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
+61 7 344 36177
Researcher biography
Dr. Larisa Labzin studies how our innate immune system detects viral infections and how it decodes different signals to mount an appropriate immune response. Dr. Labzin's interest in innate immunity started during her honours training with Prof. Matt Sweet at the IMB, looking at how inflammatory signalling is regulated in macrophages. After gaining more experience while working as a research assistant for Prof. Sweet, she moved to Germany to the University of Bonn for her PhD. At the Univeristy of Bonn, Dr. Labzin investigated the anti-inflammatory effects of High-Density Lipoprotein with Prof. Eicke Latz. Here she discovered novel regulatory pathways that control inflammation. Dr. Labzin then moved to Cambridge, UK as an EMBO postdoctoral fellow to work with Dr. Leo James at the Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Biology. In Dr. James' lab Dr. Labzin focused on how viruses are sensed by the innate immune system to trigger inflammation. In particular, Dr Labzin investigated how antibodies change the way viruses trigger inflammation. While in Cambridge, Dr. Labzin was awarded an NHMRC CJ Martin Fellowship to return to Australia. Larisa returned to the IMB in September 2019 to work with Prof. Kate Schroder. Dr. Labzin is an IMB Fellow and leads an independent research team studying inflammation in response to influenza and SARS-CoV-2.
Book Chapters
Lauterbach, Mario A. R., Labzin, Larisa I. and Latz, Eicke (2017). Inflammation in atherosclerosis. Inflammation - from molecular and cellular mechanisms to the clinic. (pp. 1279-1300) Weinheim, Germany: Wiley. doi: 10.1002/9783527692156.ch49
De Nardo, Dominic, Vogelhuber, Johanna, Labzin, Larisa, Langhoff, Pia and Latz, Eicke (2012). Inflammasomopathies: diseases linked to the NLRP3 inflammasome. New-opathies: an emerging molecular reclassification of human disease. (pp. 23-65) edited by Errol C. Friedberg, Diego H. Castrillon, Rene L. Galindo and Keith Wharton. Singapore: World Scientific. doi: 10.1142/9789814355698_0002
Journal Articles
Yordanov, Teodor E., Keyser, Mikaela S., Enriquez Martinez, Marco A., Esposito, Tyron, Tefft, Juliann B., Morris, Elysse K., Labzin, Larisa I., Stehbens, Samantha J., Rowan, Alan E., Hogan, Benjamin M., Chen, Christopher S., Lauko, Jan and Lagendijk, Anne K. (2024). Hyaluronic acid turnover controls the severity of cerebral cavernous malformations in bioengineered human micro-vessels. APL Bioengineering, 8 (1) 016108, 016108. doi: 10.1063/5.0159330
Chan, Amy H., Burgener, Sabrina S., Vezyrgiannis, Kassandra, Wang, Xiaohui, Acklam, Jadie, Von Pein, Jessica B., Pizzuto, Malvina, Labzin, Larisa I., Boucher, Dave and Schroder, Kate (2023). Caspase-4 dimerisation and D289 auto-processing elicit an
interleukin-1β-converting enzyme. Life Science Alliance, 6 (10) e202301908, 1-11. doi: 10.26508/lsa.202301908
Speck, Peter, Mackenzie, Jason, Bull, Rowena A., Slobedman, Barry, Drummer, Heidi, Fraser, Johanna, Herrero, Lara, Helbig, Karla, Londrigan, Sarah, Moseley, Gregory, Prow, Natalie, Hansman, Grant, Edwards, Robert, Ahlenstiel, Chantelle, Abendroth, Allison, Tscharke, David, Hobson-Peters, Jody, Kriiger-Loterio, Robson, Parry, Rhys, Marsh, Glenn, Harding, Emma, Jacques, David A., Gartner, Matthew J., Lee, Wen Shi, McAuley, Julie, Vaz, Paola, Sainsbury, Frank, Tate, Michelle D., Sinclair, Jane ... Young, Paul (2023). Statement in Support of: “Virology under the Microscope—a Call for Rational Discourse”. mBio, 14 (3), e0081523. doi: 10.1128/mbio.00815-23
Speck, Peter, Mackenzie, Jason, Bull, Rowena A., Slobedman, Barry, Drummer, Heidi, Fraser, Johanna, Herrero, Lara, Helbig, Karla, Londrigan, Sarah, Moseley, Gregory, Prow, Natalie, Hansman, Grant, Edwards, Robert, Ahlenstiel, Chantelle, Abendroth, Allison, Tscharke, David, Hobson-Peters, Jody, Kriiger-Loterio, Robson, Parry, Rhys, Marsh, Glenn, Harding, Emma, Jacques, David A., Gartner, Matthew J., Lee, Wen Shi, McAuley, Julie, Vaz, Paola, Sainsbury, Frank, Tate, Michelle D., Sinclair, Jane ... Young, Paul (2023). Statement in Support of: “Virology under the Microscope—a Call for Rational Discourse”. mSphere, 8 (3), e0016523. doi: 10.1128/msphere.00165-23
Labzin, Larisa I., Chew, Keng Yih, Eschke, Kathrin, Wang, Xiaohui, Esposito, Tyron, Stocks, Claudia J., Rae, James, Patrick, Ralph, Mostafavi, Helen, Hill, Brittany, Yordanov, Teodor E., Holley, Caroline L., Emming, Stefan, Fritzlar, Svenja, Mordant, Francesca L., Steinfort, Daniel P., Subbarao, Kanta, Nefzger, Christian M., Lagendijk, Anne K., Gordon, Emma J., Parton, Robert G., Short, Kirsty R., Londrigan, Sarah L. and Schroder, Kate (2023). Macrophage ACE2 is necessary for SARS-CoV-2 replication and subsequent cytokine responses that restrict continued virion release. Science Signaling, 16 (782) eabq1366, eabq1366. doi: 10.1126/scisignal.abq1366
Labzin, Larisa I. and Schroder, Kate (2023). Stoking inflammasome fires in the COVID-19 neighborhood. Cell Host and Microbe, 31 (2), 168-170. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2023.01.008
Wang, Xiaohui and Labzin, Larisa I. (2023). Inflammatory cell death: how macrophages sense neighbouring cell infection and damage. Biochemical Society Transactions, 51 (1), 303-313. doi: 10.1042/bst20220807
Speck, Peter, Mackenzie, Jason, Bull, Rowena A., Slobedman, Barry, Drummer, Heidi, Fraser, Johanna, Herrero, Lara, Helbig, Karla, Londrigan, Sarah, Moseley, Gregory, Prow, Natalie, Hansman, Grant, Edwards, Robert, Ahlenstiel, Chantelle, Abendroth, Allison, Tscharke, David, Hobson-Peters, Jody, Kriiger-Loterio, Robson, Parry, Rhys, Marsh, Glenn, Harding, Emma, Jacques, David A., Gartner, Matthew J., Lee, Wen Shi, McAuley, Julie, Vaz, Paola, Sainsbury, Frank, Tate, Michelle D., Sinclair, Jane ... Young, Paul (2023). Statement in Support of: “Virology under the Microscope-a Call for Rational Discourse”. Journal of Virology, 97 (5). doi: 10.1128/jvi.00451-23
Zhu, Yanshan, Chew, Keng Yih, Wu, Melanie, Karawita, Anjana C., McCallum, Georgina, Steele, Lauren E., Yamamoto, Ayaho, Labzin, Larisa I., Yarlagadda, Tejasri, Khromykh, Alexander A., Wang, Xiaohui, Sng, Julian D. J., Stocks, Claudia J., Xia, Yao, Kollmann, Tobias R., Martino, David, Joensuu, Merja, Meunier, Frédéric A., Balistreri, Giuseppe, Bielefeldt-Ohmann, Helle, Bowen, Asha C., Kicic, Anthony, Sly, Peter D., Spann, Kirsten M. and Short, Kirsty R. (2022). Ancestral SARS-CoV-2, but not Omicron, replicates less efficiently in primary pediatric nasal epithelial cells. PLoS Biology, 20 (8) e3001728, 1-19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001728
Hulme, Katina D., Noye, Ellesandra C., Short, Kirsty R. and Labzin, Larisa I. (2021). Dysregulated inflammation during obesity: driving disease severity in influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 infections. Frontiers in Immunology, 12 770066, 770066. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.770066
Schimmel, Lilian, Chew, Keng Yih, Stocks, Claudia J., Yordanov, Teodor E., Essebier, Patricia, Kulasinghe, Arutha, Monkman, James, Santos Miggiolaro, Anna Flavia Ribeiro, Cooper, Caroline, Noronha, Lucia, Schroder, Kate, Lagendijk, Anne Karine, Labzin, Larisa I., Short, Kirsty R. and Gordon, Emma J. (2021). Endothelial cells are not productively infected by SARS‐CoV‐2. Clinical and Translational Immunology, 10 (10) e1350, e1350. doi: 10.1002/cti2.1350
Labzin, Larisa I., Bottermann, Maria, Rodriguez‐Silvestre, Pablo, Foss, Stian, Andersen, Jan Terje, Vaysburd, Marina, Clift, Dean and James, Leo C. (2019). Antibody and DNA sensing pathways converge to activate the inflammasome during primary human macrophage infection. EMBO Journal, 38 (21) e101365, e101365. doi: 10.15252/embj.2018101365
Castro-Dopico, Tomas, Dennison, Thomas W., Ferdinand, John R., Mathews, Rebeccah J., Fleming, Aaron, Clift, Dean, Stewart, Benjamin J., Jing, Chenzhi, Strongili, Konstantina, Labzin, Larisa I., Monk, Edward J.M., Saeb-Parsy, Kourosh, Bryant, Clare E., Clare, Simon, Parkes, Miles and Clatworthy, Menna R. (2019). Anti-commensal IgG Drives Intestinal Inflammation and Type 17 Immunity in Ulcerative Colitis. Immunity, 50 (4), 1099-1114.e10. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2019.02.006
Labzin, Larisa I., Heneka, Michael T. and Latz, Eicke (2018). Innate immunity and neurodegeneration. Annual Review of Medicine, 69 (1), 437-449. doi: 10.1146/annurev-med-050715-104343
Clift, Dean, McEwan, William A., Labzin, Larisa I., Konieczny, Vera, Mogessie, Binyam, James, Leo C. and Schuh, Melina (2017). A method for the acute and rapid degradation of endogenous proteins. Cell, 171 (7), 1692-1706. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.10.033
Labzin, Larisa I., Lauterbach, Mario A.R. and Latz, Eicke (2016). Interferons and inflammasomes: cooperation and counterregulation in disease. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 138 (1), 37-46. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2016.05.010
Zimmer, Sebastian, Grebe, Alena, Bakke, Siril S., Bode, Niklas, Halvorsen, Bente, Ulas, Thomas, Skjelland, Mona, De Nardo, Dominic, Labzin, Larisa I., Kerksiek, Anja, Hempel, Chris, Heneka, Michael T., Hawxhurst, Victoria, Fitzgerald, Michael L., Trebicka, Jonel, Björkhem, Ingemar, Gustafsson, Jan-Åke, Westerterp, Marit, Tall, Alan R., Wright, Samuel D., Espevik, Terje, Schultze, Joachim L., Nickenig, Georg, Lütjohann, Dieter and Latz, Eicke (2016). Cyclodextrin promotes atherosclerosis regression via macrophage reprogramming. Science Translational Medicine, 8 (333) ra50, 333ra50-333ra50. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aad6100
Labzin, Larisa I., Schmidt, Susanne V., Masters, Seth L., Beyer, Marc, Krebs, Wolfgang, Klee, Kathrin, Stahl, Rainer, Lütjohann, Dieter, Schultze, Joachim L., Latz, Eicke and De Nardo, Dominic (2015). ATF3 is a key regulator of macrophage IFN responses. Journal of Immunology, 195 (9), 4446-4455. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1500204
Krebs, Wolfgang, Schmidt, Susanne V., Goren, Alon, De Nardo, Dominic, Labzin, Larisa, Bovier, Anton, Ulas, Thomas, Theis, Heidi, Kraut, Michael, Latz, Eicke, Beyer, Marc and Schultze, Joachim L. (2014). Optimization of transcription factor binding map accuracy utilizing knockout-mouse models. Nucleic Acids Research, 42 (21), 13051-13060. doi: 10.1093/nar/gku1078
Xue, Jia, Schmidt, Susanne V., Sander, Jil, Draffehn, Astrid, Krebs, Wolfgang, Quester, Inga, DeNardo, Dominic, Gohel, Trupti D., Emde, Martina, Schmidleithner, Lisa, Ganesan, Hariharasudan, Nino-Castro, Andrea, Mallmann, Michael R., Labzin, Larisa, Theis, Heidi, Kraut, Michael, Beyer, Marc, Latz, Eicke, Freeman, Tom C., Ulas, Thomas and Schultze, Joachim L. (2014). Transcriptome-based network analysis reveals a spectrum model of human macrophage activation. Immunity, 40 (2), 274-288. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2014.01.006
De Nardo, Dominic, Labzin, Larisa I., Kono, Hajime, Seki, Reiko, Schmidt, Susanne V., Beyer, Marc, Xu, Dakang, Zimmer, Sebastian, Lahrmann, Catharina, Schildberg, Frank A., Vogelhuber, Johanna, Kraut, Michael, Ulas, Thomas, Kerksiek, Anja, Krebs, Wolfgang, Bode, Niklas, Grebe, Alena, Fitzgerald, Michael L., Hernandez, Nicholas J., Williams, Bryan R.G., Knolle, Percy, Kneilling, Manfred, Röcken, Martin, Lütjohann, Dieter, Wright, Samuel D., Schultze, Joachim L. and Latz, Eicke (2014). High-density lipoprotein mediates anti-inflammatory reprogramming of macrophages via the transcriptional regulator ATF3. Nature Immunology, 15 (2), 152-160. doi: 10.1038/ni.2784
Pelka, Karin, Phulphagar, Kshiti, Zimmermann, Jana, Stahl, Rainer, Schmid-Burgk, Jonathan L., Schmidt, Tobias, Spille, Jan-Hendrik, Labzin, Larisa I., Agrawal, Sudhir, Kandimalla, Ekambar R., Casanova, Jean-Laurent, Hornung, Veit, Marshak-Rothstein, Ann, Höning, Stefan and Latz, Eicke (2014). Cutting edge: the UNC93B1 tyrosine-based motif regulates trafficking and TLR responses via separate mechanisms. Journal of Immunology, 193 (7), 3257-3261. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1301886
Shakespear, Melanie R., Hohenhaus, Daniel M., Kelly, Greg M., Kamal, Nabilah A., Gupta, Praveer, Labzin, Larisa I., Schroder, Kate, Garceau, Valerie, Barbero, Sheila, Iyer, Abishek, Hume, David A., Reid, Robert C., Irvine, Katharine M., Fairlie, David P. and Sweet, Matthew J. (2013). Histone deacetylase 7 promotes Toll-like Receptor 4-dependent pro-inflammatory gene expression in macrophages. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 288 (35), 25362-25374. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M113.496281
Schroder, Kate, Irvine, Katharine M., Taylor, Martin S., Bokil, Nilesh J., Le Cao, Kim-Anh, Masterman, Kelly-Anne, Labzin, Larisa I., Semple, Colin A., Kapetanovic, Ronan, Fairbairn, Lynsey, Akalin, Altuna, Faulkner, Geoffrey J., Baillie, John Kenneth, Gongora, Milena, Daub, Carsten O., Kawaji, Hideya, McLachlan, Geoffrey J., Goldman, Nick, Grimmond, Sean M., Carninci, Piero, Suzuki, Harukazu, Hayashizaki, Yoshihide, Lenhard, Boris, Hume, David A. and Sweet, Matthew J. (2012). Conservation and divergence in Toll-like receptor 4-regulated gene expression in primary human versus mouse macrophages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 109 (16), E944-E953. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1110156109
Christ, Angelika N., Labzin, Larisa, Bourne, Gregory T., Fukunishi, Hirotada, Weber, Jane E., Sweet, Matthew J., Smythe, Mark L. and Flanagan, Jack U. (2010). Development and characterization of new inhibitors of the human and mouse hematopoietic prostaglandin D-2 synthases. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 53 (15), 5536-5548. doi: 10.1021/jm100194a
Halili, Maria A., Andrews, Melanie R., Labzin, Larisa I., Schroder, Kate, Matthias, Gabriele, Cao, Chun, Lovelace, Erica, Reid, Robert C., Le, Giang T., Hume, David A., Irvine, Katharine M., Matthias, Patrick, Fairlie, David P. and Sweet, Matthew J. (2010). Differential effects of selective HDAC inhibitors on macrophage inflammatory responses to the Toll-like receptor 4 agonist LPS. Journal of Leukocyte Biology, 87 (6), 1103-1114. doi: 10.1189/jlb.0509363