Athena Swan Gold Award

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

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Professor Gill Elliott

Professor of Virology

Section members

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Dr Lindsay Broadbent

Lecturer in Virology

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Professor Nicolas Locker

Professor of Virology

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Dr Carlos Maluquer de Motes

Reader in Molecular Virology

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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

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Monica Hill

Post Graduate Researcher

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Isobel Stokes

Postgraduate Research Student

Sian Wells

Postgraduate Research Student

Technical Staff

Angela Boxall

Laboratory Manager