BASIC, APPLIED, CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH

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Our school is divided into four main research areas:

Immunology and Inflammation

  • Cytokine and chemokine biology
  • Immune cell signalling
  • Advanced imaging and flow cytometry
  • T cell, dendritic cell and macrophage biology
  • Immunological tolerance and memory
  • Bioinformatics of immune responses and infection
  • Translation currently focused in rheumatology, dermatology, respiratory and nervous system diseases

Bacteriology

  • Mechanisms of disease in clinically relevant pathogens
  • Mechanisms of microbial evolution and the emergence of new pathogens
  • Structural and functional analysis of bacterial virulence factors
  • Addressing AMR – identification of new antibiotics and alternative strategies for treating infection
  • Role of host microbiota and host metabolites in influencing the outcome of infection

Parasitology

  • Global analyses of parasite biology, including genomics, metabolomics and ecological approaches
  • Drug resistance, immune evasion, invasiveness, Differentiation
  • Pathogenesis
  • Research links with disease-endemic countries, particularly in Africa

Virology

  • Molecular virology to in vivo pathogenesis
  • Virus-cell interactions, viral immunology, viral ecology and emergence
  • Structural virology
  • Clinical and veterinary virology, viral diagnostics, virus epidemiology, mathematical modelling and bioinformatics