Characterising the mode of action of VP22 - a novel herpes simplex virus virulence factor important for in vivo replication
Start date
01 June 2015End date
31 May 2018Team
Principal investigator
Professor Gill Elliott
Professor of Virology
Biography
After a degree in Microbiology at Queen's University Belfast, I obtained my PhD working with Bert Rima on the molecular biology of the RNA virus mumps virus. I subsequently worked as a postdoc with Sue and Alan Kingsman in Oxford where I studied molecular aspects of HIV transcription. My herpesvirus research began when I obtained a Wellcome Trust Junior Fellowship to work at the University of Leeds. A further move to Marie Curie Research Institute in Surrey, allowed me to pursue my interests in herpesviruses, initially in the lab of Peter O'Hare, and subsequently in my own group. In 2007 I moved to the Section of Virology, Imperial College London where I obtained an MRC Senior Nonclinical Fellowship working on the cell biology of herpes simplex virus morphogenesis. I took up my current position of Professor of Virology in the Department of Microbial Sciences, School of Biosciences, University of Surrey, in June 2013.