Rate My Professor Ayesha Ayesha

Ayesha Ayesha is an Associate Lecturer in the Discipline of Medical Biochemistry at the University of Newcastle, Australia, within the School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Newcastle, completing her degree from November 2014 to December 2019. Prior to her current appointment, she worked as a Lecturer from February 2019 to March 2021 at the University of Newcastle and the Hunter Medical Research Institute.

Ayesha Ayesha's academic interests and research specializations include functional genomics in inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis), 3D organoid culture, molecular cell biology, histological analysis, 3D microscopy, and fluorescence microscopy. Her work explores epithelial biology in contexts such as asthma, respiratory infections, reproductive health, and intestinal immunity. She has co-authored key publications, including "Inflammation-induced loss of CFTR-expressing airway ionocytes in non-eosinophilic asthma" (2024), "Maternal diet modulates the infant microbiome and intestinal Flt3L necessary for dendritic cell development and immunity to respiratory infection" (2023), "The maternal microbiome regulates infant respiratory disease susceptibility via intestinal Flt3L expression and plasmacytoid dendritic cell hematopoiesis" (2023), "Bovine and human endometrium-derived hydrogels support organoid culture from healthy and cancerous tissues" (2022), "ACE2 expression is elevated in airway epithelial cells from older and male healthy individuals but reduced in asthma" (2021), "Protocol for In Vitro Establishment and Long-Term Culture of Mouse Vaginal Organoids" (2020), "Cell Lineage Tracing Identifies Hormone-Regulated and Wnt-Responsive Vaginal Epithelial Stem Cells" (2020), and "Endometrial Axin2+ Cells Drive Epithelial Homeostasis, Regeneration, and Cancer following Oncogenic Transformation" (2019). These contributions have amassed 560 citations. She has also collaborated on research grants, such as a 2021 project with colleagues.