

Section of Virology
Our research focuses on the relationship between the virus and the host cell, using a number of DNA viruses (HSV1, KSHV, and poxviruses), and RNA viruses (caliciviruses, flaviviruses) as model systems.
Research interests
- Cellular responses to virus infection – cell defence and virus counter-mechanisms involved in the interplay between virus and cell.
- Regulation of virus protein synthesis - how viruses hijack the cellular translational machinery to enable large-scale virus production.
- Virus morphogenesis – the interactions and cellular transport pathways involved in virus assembly and egress.
We are expert in classical virology, molecular biology and cellular biology approaches, and use state-of-the-art techniques ranging from single cell imaging to proteomics, RNAseq and translatomics to help us build a greater understanding of how viruses successfully subvert their host cells.
Section lead

Professor Nicolas Locker
Professor of Virology
Section members

Dr Lindsay Broadbent
Lecturer in Virology

Dr Hannah Burgess
Lecturer

Professor Gill Elliott
Professor of Virology

Dr Carlos Maluquer de Motes
Reader in Molecular Virology
Research staff

Dr Ibrahim Hemadeh
Research fellow

Dr Valentina Iadevaia
Research Fellow

Emily Relton
Research Officer in RNA Biology

Dr Rebecca Sumner
Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr Emma Wise
Research Fellow in Virology
Postgraduate research students

Lucy Eke
Postgraduate research student

Dr Jo Kite
Research Assistant

Dana Perry
Postgraduate research student

Isobel Stokes
Postgraduate Research Student

Sian Wells
Postgraduate Research Student
Technical Staff

Angela Boxall
Laboratory Manager