Department of Pathology
Senior Lecturer in Molecular Parasitology
T. gondii genome sequence information to investigate basic properties of the host-parasite interaction.
Principal Investigator, MRC Career Development Award
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology
Ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like pathways in malaria and other parasites
Department of Medicine, CITIID.
Molecular microbiologist; enteric infections in developing countries with an emphasis on Norovirus, Shigella spp. and Salmonella Typhi.
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Genomics of bacterial pathogenesis with a particular focus on pneumonia and meningitis
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Matt leads the parasite genomics group who study the parasites that cause malaria and neglected tropical diseases.
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Senior Lecturer in Molecular Virology
Immune response to persistent viral infections; pathogenesis of gastrointestinal viruses.
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Department of Pathology
Characterization of malarial transmission and the design of anti-parasitic transmission-blocking interventions
Department of Biochemistry
Structural biology, bioinformatics and drug discovery
Department of Biochemistry
Molecular mechanisms underpinning RNA-controlled self-assembly of multi-segmented viral genomes.
Viral genome packaging, virus assembly, biomolecular condensates, RNA dynamics and RNA chaperones, rotaviruses.
Department of Pathology
Translational control; ribosomal frameshifting and readthrough; virus gene expression; RNA structure and function
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Department of Physics
Development of Therapeutics for Bacterial Infectious Diseases, including Traumatic Injury Infection and Biothreat Agents
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Intestinal microbiota; evolution of intestinal spore-forming bacteria in human gut.
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Innate Immunity; host recognition of infection; immunopharmacology
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Department of Veterinary Medicine
Senior Lecturer in Molecular Immunology
Prion diseases
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Gastrointestinal helminths, host-parasite interactions, high-throughput sequencing technologies.
Department of Plant Sciences
Head of Virology and Molecular Plant Pathology Group
My research interests include viral subversion of plant resistance, viral gene expression, plant-virus-insect vector interactions, and the effects of virus infection on interactions of plants with beneficial insects such as pollinators.
Department of Biochemistry
Molecular Cell Biology of Trypanosomes
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Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
Bacterial spore structure and germination; structural biology (protein crystallography); coronavirus testing and inactivation
We study bacterial spores (e.g. Bacillus and Clostridium), with a focus on their assembly, structure, and germination.
Department of Pathology
Translation control; gene expression mechanisms; ribosome profiling; RNA structure and function
Department of Physics
Salmonella infection of macrophages; bacterial adhesion in airways; P.falciparum (Malaria) egress and invasion in red blood cells; gene expression noise in E.coli; new phenotipic responses to antibiotics; microfluidics/single cell imaging.
Department of Engineering
Engineering design: including process management, change management, healthcare design and inclusive design.
Department of Plant Sciences
Mathematical modelling of the spread, detection, evolution and control of crop and tree diseases.
Infectious disease mortality in historical populations; smallpox; tuberculosis ; influenza; puerperal infections
Programme leader
Statistical methods in epidemic modelling
Principal Investigator, Cambridge Institute Medical Research (CIMR)
Molecular mechanisms of host-pathogen interactions during bacterial infection
Molecular biology of rotaviruses
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Department of Medicine
Vaccinology/pathogenic mechanisms, specialising on the immunology of mucosal vaccines and molecular basis of infection.
Epidemiology and Immunology of Schistosomiasis and other Human Parasitic Diseases.
Senior Research Associate (Mathematical & Computational Biology), Department of Chemistry
AI Researcher & Mathematical Modeller
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Department of Medicine
The response of Macrophages and Dendritic cells to bacterial and mycobacterial infection.
Senior University Lecturer in Cellular & Molecular Microbiology
Head of the Division of Microbiology & Parasitology, Department of Pathology
Niccoli Fellow in the Natural Sciences & Director of Studies, Queens' College
Department of Plant Sciences
Epidemiological modelling to predict the spread of plant disease epidemics and to identify and optimise economically and ecologically sustainable strategies for disease management.
A consultant in infectious diseases with an interest in primary and secondary immunodeficiencies and transplantation.
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP)
Mathematics of infectious diseases,viral bioinformatics,influenza modelling
Department of Pathology
Virus-host interactions, with particular emphasis on noroviruses.
Professor of Virus:Host Interactions
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Host-pathogen interactions and the molecular basis of virulence.
Stanley Elmore Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex College
Associated PI in the Department of Medicine
I research the molecular interactions between retroviruses and human cells
Department of Chemical Engineering & Technology
Innovation of cheap diagnostics in developing countries.
Everitt Butterfield Fellow in Emerging Infectious Diseases
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Interested in infectious diseases; epidemiology; global health; outbreak response; surveillance
Comparative Pathology of Viral Infections
Head of the Lab of Viral Zoonotics
Contact: jlh66@cam.ac.uk
Research Fellow, Babraham Institute
Lymphocyte Signalling and Development
Studying T cell and antibody responses to global health vaccines
Professor in Microbial Genomics & Veterinary Science
Director of Studies in Clinical Veterinary Medicine (Churchill College)
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Professor at Department of Pharmacology
Sheild Chair of Pharmacology
Protein Technologies for Therapeutic and Vaccine Design
We are interested in the molecular biology of the remnant chloroplast (apicoplast) in apicomplexan parasites (e.g. Plasmodium)
Research Group Leader, Virology, Department of Pathology
Understanding the role of Zika virus genome translation in viral pathogenicity and disease
The evolution and genetics of insects and their pathogens
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Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Science and Associate Principal Investigator
Elucidation of host-Pathogen interactions of enteric bacteria using a genomic and phylogenomic approach.
Public policy evaluation; Health economics
Group Leader: Vector-parasite interactions
We use genomic approaches to better understand mosquito populations and parasite transmission dynamics.
Department of Medicine
Molecular and structural biology of how RNA viruses package their genetic material and how they select their own RNA from the cell so specifically.
Principal Investigator
Department of Biochemistry
The molecular basis and evolution of host-parasite interactions in African trypanosomes.
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Reader in Infection and Immunity
Pathogen behaviour (e.g. location, growth, spread in the body, gene regulation) in vivo at the single cell level in relation to immunity, vaccines and antibiotics.
Viral and cellular regulation of immunometabolism
Emeritus Professor of Veterinary Science
Research Interest Immunology of infection
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Pathology
Basic biology of the human malaria parasite and impact of this biology on virulence. Molecular genetics and cell biology
Runs the Cambridge Ancient Parasites Laboratory
Senior Research Associate, McDonald Institute, Department of Archaeology
Hospital Consultant (specialist) in NHS
Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow
Reader in Virology and Immunology
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Professor of comparative oncology and genetics
Department of Medicine/CITIID
Uses advanced bacterial genomics and metagenomics to understand the evolution and spread of pathogens and mine genomic data to identify robust, risk-informative diagnostic markers
University Lecturer, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
I develop in vitro models of the gut-brain axis with integrated electronic monitoring.
My interests are sustainability of HIV services in Africa, fungal infections in Uganda and HIV/STI management
Marks and Spencer Professor, Department of Veterinary Medicine
The emergence, transmission and evolution of bacterial pathogens
Clinical and research interests in inflammation, sepsis , nutrition and the relationship between gut microbiota and the host
Director, COVID-19 genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK) and Professor of Public Health & Microbiology
Senior Research Associate
Department of Medicine
University of Cambridge
Research Fellow in Animal Parasitology at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge.
Research Group Leader in Computational Biology at the Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.
Structure and ligand-guided development of novel small molecule leads against druggable microbial proteins
We are interested in understanding the pathogenesis of tuberculosis and the basis of vastly different susceptibilities to this disease.
Cell autonomous innate immunity, i.e. the ability of individual cells to defend themselves against infection
Cambridge Institute of Medical Research (CIMR)/Department of Medicine
High throughput approaches to understand the biology of malaria parasites and prioritise new drug and vaccine targets
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.
Trafficking and processing of bacterial proteins by mammalian cells.
Professor of Protein Crystallography
Develop methods for X-ray crystallography
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University Assistant Professor, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow
Department of Pathology; Department of Biochemistry; CIMR
Cell biology of obligate intracellular bacteria
Department of Genetics
Applied public health research, especially with regards to the spread of infectious pathogens, and sitting at the interface of mathematical modelling, genetics, population biology, big data, public health and field-based epidemiology.
Department of Biochemistry
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.
Population based, public health and genetic epidemiology studies of chronic infectious and non-infectious diseases.
Gatsby Research Group Leader
We study plant processes underlying the accommodation of beneficial and pathogenic microbes.
Department of Architecture
Focus on ventilation in building design, including hospitals and surgical theatres.
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 progr
Department of Medicine
Basic immunological mechanisms, and how defects in regulatory control of the immune system can lead to autoimmunity and alter defence against infection.
Department of Zoology
Evolution and population dynamics of antigenically variable pathogens, particularly influenza viruses but also malaria, HIV, and HCV.
Head of Department of Pathology
Poxviruses, specifically vaccinia virus, the live vaccine used to eradicate smallpox.
Department of Pathology
How viral RNA polymerases work and contribute to RNA virus pathogenicity.
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')
1. Senior Program Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
2. Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, Addenbrooke's Hospital
3. Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge
Professor of Global Health, Department of Veterinary Medicine
Director of Cambridge-Africa, Department of Pathology
Honorary Epidemiologist at UKHSA
Fellow at Hughes Hall
Professor of Molecular Pharmacology (grade 11)
Focus on Antimicrobial Resistance research
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Molecular Cell Biology and Evolution of Apicomplexan Parasites
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Professor of Viral Immunology, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
I use cutting-edge proteomics to identify and characterise novel aspects of innate antiviral immunity.
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Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Henry Dale Fellow
Principal Investigator
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Department of Biochemistry
Regulation of microbial virulence and biofilms in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Quorum sensing, anti-bacterials, stringent response.
Molecular evolution of pathogens
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Host-microbial interactions, mucosal immunology, bacterial infection and immunity, intestinal-health related research.
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Veterinarian, epidemiology with interests in the infection dynamics and control of zoonotic diseases in Africa and globally.
I am interested in extracellular receptor-ligand interactions for host-pathogen interactions and reverse vaccinology.
Digital Epidemiology: Modelling of Epidemic Spread using Human Mobility Data from Sensors and Mobile-Phones
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David Phillips Fellow and Group Leader (Department of Chemistry)
Semi-artificial photosynthesis, (photo)electrochemistry, chemical biology, materials chemistry, 3D-printing, biofilm chemistry
Antifouling and biofilm research in the context of anti-microbial resistance