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Section of Virology
Our research focuses on the relationship between the virus and the host cell, using a number of DNA viruses (including herpesviruses, poxviruses), and RNA viruses (including coronaviruses, paramyxoviruses, bunyaviruses, flaviviruses).
Research interests
- Cellular responses to virus infection – cell defence and virus counter-mechanisms involved in the interplay between virus and cell.
- Virus morphogenesis – the interactions and cellular transport pathways involved in virus assembly and egress.
- Regulation of RNA metabolism - how viruses hijack the cellular mRNA regulatory machinery (RNA modification, decay, translation) to enable large-scale virus production.
- Systems virology - using powerful 'omics approaches to understand virus:cell interactions, focusing on tick-borne viruses
- Utilising cutting-edge 3D cell culture to understand the role of respiratory virus infection and innate immune responses in the development and progression of chronic lung disease
We are expert in classical virology, molecular biology and cellular biology approaches, and techniques ranging from single cell imaging to proteomics, transcriptomics and translatomics to help us build a greater understanding of how viruses successfully replicate in their host cells.
Meet the team
Section lead
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Professor Gill Elliott
Professor of Virology
Section members
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Dr Lindsay Broadbent
Lecturer in Virology
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Dr Hannah Burgess
Lecturer
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Professor Nicolas Locker
Professor of Virology
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Dr Carlos Maluquer de Motes
Reader in Molecular Virology
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Dr Marine Petit
Lecturer in Virology
Research staff
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Lucy Eke
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Molecular Virology
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Dr Rebecca Sumner
Senior Research Fellow
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Dr Alistair Tweedie
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in RNA Biology
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Dr Michihito Wakai
Research Fellow
Postgraduate research students
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Hannah Ashby
Postgraduate Research Student
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Sophie Cutts
Postgraduate Research Student
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Ikshitaa Dinesh
Postgraduate Research Student
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Justin Duruanyanwu
Postgraduate Researcher
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Postgraduate research student
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Monica Hill
Postgraduate Research Student
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Tom Moore
Postgraduate Research Student
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Natasha Preston
Postgraduate Research Student
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Telma Sancheira Freitas
Postgraduate Research Student
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Rees Sorby
Postgraduate Research Student
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Isobel Stokes
Postgraduate Research Student
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Adriana Gladys Tubb
Postgraduate Research Student
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Postgraduate Research Student
Technical staff
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Angela Boxall
Laboratory Manager