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 Gill Elliott
Professor of Virology
Section members
Dr Lindsay Broadbent
Lecturer in Virology
Dr Hannah Burgess
Lecturer
Professor Nicolas Locker
Professor of Virology
Dr Carlos Maluquer de Motes
Reader in Molecular Virology
Dr Marine Petit
Lecturer in Virology
Research staff
Dr Rebecca Sumner
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr Alistair Tweedie
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in RNA Biology
Dr Michihito Wakai
Research Fellow
Postgraduate research students
Lucy Eke
Postgraduate research student
Monica Hill
Post Graduate Researcher
Isobel Stokes
Postgraduate Research Student
Sian Wells
Postgraduate Research Student
Technical Staff
Angela Boxall
Laboratory Manager