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Research Directory

  1. Principal Investigators
  2. Postdoctoral Scientists
  3. Graduate Students
  4. Other members

Principal Investigators

Professor Chris Abell
  • fragment based drug discovery
  • targeting enzymes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  • enzyme mechanism and inhibition
  • structural biology
James Ajioka, PhD
  • Senior Lecturer in Molecular Parasitology
+44 1223 333 923
Dr Barbara Blacklaws, BSc(Hon), PhD
  • Senior Lecturer in Molecular Virology
01223 337609
Ian Brierley
  • Translational regulation of virus gene expression
44-1223-336914
Ellen Brooks-Pollock
  • EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Reader Clare Bryant
  • BBSRC Research Development Fellow
  • Reader in Immunopharmacology
01223 766232
John Carr
  • Virology and Molecular Plant Pathology
Dr Mark Carrington
  • Molecular Cell Biology of Trypanosomes
+44 1223 333683
Dr Alessio Ciulli
  • BBSRC David Phillips Fellow in Chemical Biology
Dr Camilo Colaco
  • Chief Scientific Officer and Founder of Immbio
Professor Anne Cooke
  • Professor of Immunobiology
01223 333907
Dr Colin Crump
  • Royal Society University Research Fellow
  • Cell Biology of Herpesvirus Assembly and Egress
+44 (0) 1223 763423
Ulrich Desselberger, MD FRCPath FRCPG FRCP
  • Molecular biology of rotaviruses
+44 (0)1223 763403
Dr Paul Digard
  • -Intracellular trafficking of virus components
  • -Virion assembly
  • -Transcription and replication of the virus genome
  • -Senior Lecturer
Professor David Dunne
  • Epidemiology and Immunology of Schistosomiasis and other Human Parasitic Diseases.
Lars Dölken
  • Herpesviruses, virus-host interaction, non-coding RNAs, transcriptional regulation, systems biology, infection and immunity
Dr Stacey Efstathiou
  • Herpesvirus pathogenesis
Dr Simon Frost
  • Use of mathematical and statistical modeling to understanding the dynamics and evolution of infectious diseases such as HIV, hepatitis C and influenza A.
Professor Chris Gilligan
  • Analysis of factors that influence and control invasion, persistence and variability of disease and other organisms using a combination of experimentation and modelling
Dr Julia Gog
  • Mathematics of infectious diseases
Dr Andrew James Grant
  • -Host-pathogen interactions and the molecular basis of virulence
  • -Senior Research Associate
01223 765801
Professor Jonathan Heeney
  • Successful host immune responses to RNA viruses
Dr Francis Jiggins
  • The evolution and genetics of insects and their pathogens
01223 333175
Professor Jim Kaufman
  • Evolution of immunity, focusing on the chicken MHC
Andreas Kontoleon
  • Public policy evaluation; Health economics
Dr Pietro Liò
  • Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics
Pietro Mastroeni
  • Reader in Infection and Immunity
Dr. Piers D Mitchell
  • 1) Affiliated Lecturer in Biological Anthropology
  • 2) Hospital Consultant (specialist) in NHS
  • Research interest: parasite infestation of humans throughout our evolution.
Dr Sergey Nejentsev, MD, PhD
  • Royal Society Research Fellow
Professor Julian Parkhill, FMedSci
  • Head of Pathogen Genomics, The Sanger Institute
Professor Sharon Peacock
  • Clinical microbiology; environmental microbiology; genomics in diagnostic microbiology and public health; melioidosis; Staphylococcus aureus.
Professor Randy J Read
  • Professor of Protein Crystallography
  • Develop methods for X-ray crystallography and apply to medically-relevant proteins
01223 336500
Dr Olivier Restif
  • Royal Society University Research Fellow
  • Fellow of Robinson College
Professor Christopher Rudd
  • Wellcome Trust Principal Fellow
  • Professor of Molecular Immunolology
  • Head, Cell Signalling Section
Dr Colin Russell
  • Royal Society University Research Fellow
  • Research Fellow, Fogarty International Center, NIH USA
+44 (0) 1223 330933
Professor George Salmond
  • Bacterial Quorum sensing and virulence, regulation and biosynthesis of carbapenem antibiotics and prodigiosin, protein secretion systems, viral abortive infection systems and bacteriophages of plant and animal pathogens
Professor John Sinclair
  • Professor Sinclair’s research interests are in the molecular biology and pathogenesis of human herpes viruses, particularly human cytomegalovirus (HCMV). HCMV is a major cause of disease in transplant patients and patients with AIDS and his research program aims to understand latency and reactivation of this persistent human virus and how the host immune response combats virus disease
Professor Derek Smith
  • Evolution and population dynamics of antigenically variable pathogens, particularly influenza viruses but also malaria, HIV, and HCV – Pathogen surveillance – Vaccination – Vaccine strain selection – Cross–reactive immune response – Integration of phenotypic and genetic analyses – Fitness landscapes – Epidemiology – Comparative evolution – Predictability of evolution
Dr David Spring
  • Principal Investigator
Dr Laurence S. Tiley
  • Senior Lecturer in Molecular Virology
  • Fellow of Queens' College (Part 1A MIMS supervisor)
  • Biological Safety Officer (Dept. Vet Medicine)
(01223) 339554 (Vet medicine) (01223) 330180 (Queens')
Dr Flavio Toxvaerd
  • Lecturer in Economics
Professor John Trowsdale, PhD FMedSci
  • Professor of Immunology
+44 (0)1223 330248
Martin Turner
  • We are interested in the molecular mechanisms of lymphocyte activation and differentiation
Professor James Wood
  • Alborada Professor of Equine and Farm Animal Science
  • Director, Cambridge Infectious Diseases Consortium

Postdoctoral Scientists

Anna Albecka, PhD
  • Research associate at Department of Veterinary Medicine
(+44) 1223339042
Dr Jessica Boname
  • Research Associate
  • Viral evasion/modulation of the host immune response.
Ellen Brooks-Pollock
  • EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Alan Brown
  • Research Associate
Dr Andrew James Kerr Conlan
  • Research Associate, Mathematical Modeller
+44 (0) 1223 337685
Dr. Anaid Diaz
  • Research associate
Edward Farnell
  • The structure and function of IgE binding antigens in metazoan parasites and their relationship to known allergenic proteins.
Dr Astrid Gall
  • Postdoctoral Scientist Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute - Molecular Virology
  • Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College - Veterinary Science
Daniel Lucas Glauser, DVM, PhD
  • Research Associate
  • Division of Virology
+44 1223 330020
Dr Gianni Lo Iacono
  • mathematical modeller
Dr TJ McKinley
  • Research Associate
Dr Franco Maria Neri
  • Plant disease modelling and parameter estimation.
Gavin Paterson
  • Investigation of epidemiology and evolution of MRSA, in particular strains with newly described divergent mecALGA251.
Dr Emma Poole
  • Analysis of Human Cytomegalovirus Latency
Dr Matthew Reeves
  • Role of Cellular Signalling in HCMV Reactivation
+44 1223 336862
Dr Komla Sobo
  • Visiting researcher
01223 336918
Dr Soumi Sukla
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr. Irina Tikhonova
  • Research Associate
01223 337 699
Dr John Wright
  • Research Associate

Graduate Students

Emily A. Bruce
  • PhD student
01223 336918
Dr Ed Cartwright
  • Clinical Research Fellow
Muhammad Farooq
  • PhD student
Leah Katzelnick
  • Dengue Antigenic Cartography Project, Centre for Pathogen Evolution
Dr Gavin CKW Koh, MA MRCP DTM&H
  • PhD student, Research Associate
Adam Kucharski
  • PhD Student
  • Evolutionary dynamics of influenza
Will Rowe
  • Metagenomic assessment of antimicrobial resistance genes in the environment
Fergal Waldron
+44 (0)1223 333 945
Ali Yetisen
  • Diagnostics for the developing world, multiplex assays, microfluidics, biosensors, and analyte-specific holographic sensors.