

Section of Virology
Our research focuses on the relationship between the virus and the host cell, using a number of DNA viruses (including herpesviruses, poxviruses), and RNA viruses (including coronaviruses, paramyxoviruses, bunyaviruses, flaviviruses).
Research interests
- Cellular responses to virus infection – cell defence and virus counter-mechanisms involved in the interplay between virus and cell.
- Virus morphogenesis – the interactions and cellular transport pathways involved in virus assembly and egress.
- Regulation of RNA metabolism - how viruses hijack the cellular mRNA regulatory machinery (RNA modification, decay, translation) to enable large-scale virus production.
- Systems virology - using powerful 'omics approaches to understand virus:cell interactions, focusing on tick-borne viruses
- Utilising cutting-edge 3D cell culture to understand the role of respiratory virus infection and innate immune responses in the development and progression of chronic lung disease
We are expert in classical virology, molecular biology and cellular biology approaches, and techniques ranging from single cell imaging to proteomics, transcriptomics and translatomics to help us build a greater understanding of how viruses successfully replicate in their host cells.
Meet the team
Section lead

Professor Gill Elliott
Professor of Virology
Section members

Dr Lindsay Broadbent
Lecturer in Virology

Dr Hannah Burgess
Lecturer

Dr Carlos Maluquer de Motes
Reader in Molecular Virology

Dr Marine Petit
Lecturer in Virology
Research staff

Dr Rebecca Sumner
Senior Research Fellow

Dr Alistair Tweedie
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in RNA Biology
Postgraduate research students

Hannah Ashby
Postgraduate Research Student

Sophie Cutts
Postgraduate Research Student

Ikshitaa Dinesh
Postgraduate Research Student

Justin Duruanyanwu
Postgraduate Researcher
Ailish Ellis
Postgraduate research student

Monica Hill
Postgraduate Research Student

Tom Moore
Postgraduate Research Student

Natasha Preston
Postgraduate Research Student

Telma Sancheira Freitas
Postgraduate Research Student

Rees Sorby
Postgraduate Research Student

Isobel Stokes
Postgraduate Research Student

Harry Taylor
Postgraduate Research Student

Adriana Gladys Tubb
Postgraduate Research Student
Ashleigh Tungate
Postgraduate Research Student
Technical staff

Angela Boxall
Laboratory Manager

Suraj Songra
Senior Laboratory Technician (Virology)