Research groups

A group of senior investigators are designated supervisors for this programme. Their research groups, based in either the Faculty of Natural Sciences or the Faculty of Medicine, offer:

academic excellence
a proven track record of successful PhD completion
substantial infrastructure support

These laboratories are likely to have a number of scientists working together as a group, all of whom have experience in directing students and where there is a coherent series of ongoing, linked projects. Students will be working in a highly interactive and supportive environment.

In order to make the allocation of PhD projects as fair as possible, incoming students can only choose supervisors who currently do not already have a PhD student on the programme. The group leaders who cannot currently be chosen due to having a PhD student are marked with an asterick below. The complete list of supervisors is below:

List of supervisors
Supervisors Name	Research
Dr Darius Armstrong-James	Respiratory Fungal Diseases
Professor Charles Bangham	Immune response to persistent virus infections *
Professor Wendy Barclay	Respiratory viruses *
Dr Jake Baum	Malaria *
Professor Hugh Brady	Molecular basis of immune cell development and function
Dr Angela Brueggemann	Infectious Disease Epidemiology *
Professor Martin Buck	Signal perception and propagation in bacteria
Dr Jake Bundy	Microbial metabolomics
Professor Bernadette Byrne	Negative regulation of the immune respsonse
Professor George Christophides	Innate immunity in insect vectors of infectious diseases
Dr Chris Chiu	Respiratory Infection
Dr Fiona Culley	Immunology of the lung – in allergy, infection and neonates
Professor Maggie Dallman	Dysregulation of the immune response *
Professor Anne Dell	Biopolymer mass spectrometry
Dr Marc Dionne	Innate Immunity
Professor Kurt Drickamer	Sugar-binding receptors in cellular recognition events
Dr Andrew Edwards	Pathogen population diversity, persistence, antibiotic tolerance and resistance.
Professor Alain Filloux	Pseudomonas pathogenesis *
Professor Gad Frankel	Pathogenesis and dissemination of Gram-negative bacteria *
Dr Kleoniki Gounaris	Modulation of host immune responses by Nematode parasites
Professor Angelika Grundling	Cell wall envelope assembly in Gram-positive bacterial pathogens
Dr Nadia Guerra	Immunoreceptors expressed by Natural Killer (NK) cells *
Dr Sophie Helaine	Molecular Bacteriology and Infection
Professor David Holden	Salmonella pathogenesis
Dr Cecilia Johansson	Cross-talk of innate cells in the lung during respiratory infections
Dr Pascale Kropf	Retroviral Immunology
Professor Paul Langford	Bacterial pathogens of the respiratory tract
Prof Clare Lloyd	Immunity in the allergic lung
Dr Cristina Lo Celso	Haematopoietic stem cell response to infection
Dr Goedele Maertens	Interaction between retroviral integrase and the host*
Professor Steve Matthews	Structural biology of pathogen recognition
Professor Myra McClure	Retroviruses and HIV
Dr Michael McGarvey	Hepatitis C virus
Dr Masahiro Ono	Infection and immunity
Professor Peter Openshaw	Immunology of lung infections *
Professor Peter O'Hare	Molecular mechanisms of virus transmission
Dr James Pease	Chemokine biology in inflammation and disease
Dr Brian Robertson	Systems microbiology and the biology of tuberculosis
Professor Gloria Rudenko	Genetics of African trypanosome VSGs
Professor David Rueda	Single molecule imaging
Professor Murray Selkirk	Functional genomics of parasitic nematodes
Professor Robin Shattock	Mucosal HIV transmission *
Dr Mike Skinner	Viral vaccine vectors *
Dr Avinash Shenoy	Molecular Microbiology
Professor Shiranee Sriskandan	Gram positive molecular pathogenesis
Dr John Tregoning	Mucosal Infection and Immunity
Dr Ramesh Wigneshweraraj	Gene regulation in bacterial pathogens
Dr Huw Williams	Physiology of bacterial pathogens in relation to chronic infection.
Dr Rob White	Virology
Dr Robert Snelgrove	Respiratory Translational Science
Prof Graham Cooke	Infectious Diseases
Dr Margarita Dominguez-Villar	Immunology of Infection
Prof Graham Taylor	Virology
Dr Vanessa Sancho-Shimizu	Peadiatric Infectious Disease
Dr Vladimir Pelicic	Molecular Bacteriology and Infection*
Dr Teresa Thurston	Molecular Microbiology
Dr Beth Holde r	International Child Health

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