People

Dr Martin Welch

• Department of Biochemistry
• Regulation of microbial virulence and biofilms in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Quorum sensing, anti-bacterials, stringent response.

Professor Jeremy Wells

• Department of Veterinary Medicine
• Host-microbial interactions, mucosal immunology, bacterial infection and immunity, intestinal-health related research.

Grace West

• PhD Student, Rihn group, CITIID, Medicine
• I study innate immune factors which may play a role in the spillover of coronaviruses from bats and rodents into humans

Fleur Whitlock

• Veterinary Surgeon and Epidemiologist, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Dr Mark Wills

Shona Wilson

• The immunology and epidemiology of human schistosomiasis

Joel Winterton

• PhD Student, Disease Dynamics Group, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
• Spatial modelling of infectious diseases

Dr Arin Wongprommoon

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Wellcome Sanger Institute
• Dr Claire Chewapreecha (Pathogens & Microbes) and Dr Emma Davenport (Human Genetics) groups
• What I do: My work aims to identify the genetic factors of host & pathogen that determines severity of melioidosis, a neglected tropical disease.

Professor James Wood

• Department of Veterinary Medicine
• Veterinarian, epidemiology with interests in the infection dynamics and control of zoonotic diseases in Africa and globally.

Dr John Wright

• Innate immune sensing of bacterial pathogens

Xin Xiong

• Graduate student, Zoology
• Bivalve transmissible cancer genome evolution

Dr Shuler Xu

• Startup founder, Department of Physics
• I'm developing a 10-minute point-of-care, sample-to-answer test for pathogen and AMR identification, by firstly building the world's fastest portable PCR machine.

Dr Benjy Tan Jek Yang

• Bioinformatician

Dr Qi Yin

• Visiting scholar at Department of Veterinary Medicine

Yingxue

• Postdoctoral Scientist, Wilson Lab, CITIID, Department of Medicine
• Innate immune response against influenza virus