Jessica G Borger

Jessica Geraldine Borger is an Australian T Cell immunologist, lecturer and graduate course coordinator at the Central Clinical School, Monash University. Her research has added to the understanding of the molecular mechanisms of T cell function. Additionally, Borger is a news and commentary editor for Immunology & Cell Biology and a guest associate editor for Frontiers in Immunology, and a reviewer for several academic journals. She received a bachelor's degree in medical and pharmaceutical biotechnology from the University of South Australia.

Borger undertook her postdoctoral training on a Medical Research Council fellowship from 2010–2016 at the University of Edinburgh with Prof Zamoyska, investigating the role of Caveolin-1 in T cell cholesterol homeostasis, integrin signaling and exosome complex biogenesis. In 2017, she was awarded the IgV Best Postdoctoral Speaker Award by the Australia and New Zealand Society for Immunology, the Best Presentation Prize by the Immunology Alfred Hospital., and in 2018 the Best Speaker Award at the International Conference on Innate Lymphoid Cells in Japan.

In 2019, Borger became lecturer and course-coordinator of graduate studies at Monash University. In this role, she created a master's course in translational research.

Science communication and gender equality advocacy Borger is an advocate for gender equality in STEM and science communicator. She has written articles for Women's Agenda, The Conversation, and SoapboxScience. In 2018, Jessica Borger was awarded the Veski Inspiring women STEM Sidebyside scholarship. and ran a survey in 2020 to understand the impact of COVID-19 on researchers with a gendered lens applied. In 2020 Borger, as a member of the Equity in Medical Research Alliance (EMRA) was involved in the creation of a position paper to mitigate the gendered impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the medical research workforce.

Publications Borger's published works include: The Influence of Innate Lymphoid Cells and Unconventional T Cells in Chronic Inflammatory Lung Disease (2019) Schistosoma mansoni-Derived Lipids in Extracellular Vesicles: Potential Agonists for Eosinophilic Tissue Repair (2019) Caveolin-1 Influences LFA-1 Redistribution upon TCR Stimulation in CD8 T Cells (2017) Proximity of TCR and its CD8 coreceptor controls sensitivity of T cells (2013) Murine cytomegalovirus encodes a miR-27 inhibitor disguised as a target (2012)