Dr. Amanda Oliver is a Team Head at QIMR Berghofer, where she leads the Barrier Immunity Lab. She completed her PhD in tumour immunology at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in 2020, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Professor Sarah Teichmann’s lab, supported by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship. Her research focuses on mucosal immunity, with work published in Nature and Nature Genetics revealing epithelial-driven immune niches and unconventional roles for epithelial cells in regulating adaptive immunity. She established her lab in 2025, where her team combines single-cell and spatial genomics with patient-derived in vitro systems to uncover mechanisms driving inflammatory diseases of mucosal tissues.