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Postgraduate School of Life Sciences

 

The Infection and Immunity Research Theme includes the following sub-groups:

  • Microbiology, Parasitology & Virology
  • Innate Immunity
  • Anti-microbial Resistance
  • Cancer Immunology & Immunotherapy
  • Cellular Immunology
  • Epidemiology & Mathematical Modelling
  • Molecular Biology & Genetics
  • One Health
  • Nanotechnology & Biotechnology
  • Cellular Physiology & Metabolism
  • Neuroimmunology & Neurodegeneration

 

Principal Investigators in this theme:

Name: Dr Jim Ajioka
Topic: Biology and evolutionary genetics of Toxoplasma
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology (Microbiology and Parasitology Division)
Email: ja131@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/james-ajioka
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Alexandre Almeida
Topic: High-resolution and large-scale approaches to investigate the function and diversity of the human microbiome in health and disease
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: aa2369@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-alexandre-almeida
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Katerina Artavanis-Tsakonas
Topic: Parasitology
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: ka447@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/artavanis-tsakonas
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Prof/Ass Prof Kate Baker
Topic: Genomics epidemiology of bacterial pathogens and antimicrobial resistance
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Genetics
Email: kb827@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://baker-lab.github.io/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Gabriel Balmus
Topic: DNA Damage Response in ageing and neurodegeneration
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Email: gb318@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.balmuslab.org
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Barbara Blacklaws
Topic: Pathogenesis of and immunity to virus infections
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Infection and Immunity
Department: Veterinary Medicine
Email: bab2@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/bab2@cam.ac.uk/
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Andrew Blagborough
Topic:Malaria transmission
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: amb283@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/andrew-blagborough
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Mark Blaxter
Topic: Tree of life
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: mb35@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/programmes/tree-of-life
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Sir Henry Dale Fellow Alex Borodavka
Topic: Biophysics of viral replication mechanisms; RNA therapeutics
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Biochemistry
Email: ab2677@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.borodavkalab.org/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Louise Boyle
Topic: Antigen presentation to cells of the immune system
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: lhb22@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.teamtapbpr.co.uk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Ian Brierley
Topic: Translational control in virus gene expression
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Pathology
Email: ib103@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/ian-brierley
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Guy Brown
Topic: Microglia, neuroinflammation & neurodegeneration
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: gcb3@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.microglia.info/guybrown
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Raymond Bujdoso
Topic: Molecular pathology in prion disease
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: rb202@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/rb202@cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Folma Buss
Topic: Molecular mechanism of myosin motor proteins in health and disease.
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: fb207@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-folma-buss
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Cinzia Cantacessi
Topic: Parasitology, host-parasite interactions, metagenomics
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: cc779@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.infectiousdisease.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-cinzia-cantacessi
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor John Carr
Topic: Plant-Pathogen Interactions
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Infection and Immunity
Department: Plant Sciences
Email: jpc1005@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/directory/john-carr
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Mike Chapman
Topic: Myeloma and normal lymphoid biology
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Haematology (NHSBT)
Email: mac54@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.haem.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-mike-chapman-2/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Jeongmin Choi
Topic: Plant Symbiosis with Beneficial Fungi
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: jc913@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/directory/jeongmin-choi
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Betty Chung
Topic: Gene expression, Translation control, abiotic (temperature, pH etc..) and biotic (infection) stresses, Host:pathogen interactions,
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Pathology
Email: bcy23@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/betty-chung
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Prof Murray Clarke
Topic: Novel mechanisms that induce vascular inflammation; particularly IL-1 family members and inflammasomes
Themes: Cancer, Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Medicine (Section of CardioRespiratory Medicine)
Email: mchc2@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/clarke/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Menna Clathworthy
Topic: Tissue immunity in health and disease
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: mrc38@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/clatworthy/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Francesco Colucci
Topic: Immunology of reproduction, Infections, Cancer
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Infection and Immunity, Women's Health
Department: Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Email: fc287@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.obgyn.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-francesco-colucci/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Andrew Conlan
Topic: Epidemiology and mathematical modelling
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: ajkc2@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/ajkc2@cam.ac.uk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Anne Corcoran
Topic: Epigenetic and chromatin remodeling mechanisms that regulate immunoglobulin gene rearrangement (VDJ recombination) in B lymphocytes in particular non-coding RNA transcription and nuclear organization
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Babraham Institute
Email: anne.corcoran@babraham.ac.uk
Website: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/nuclear-dynamics/anne-corcoran
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Colin Crump
Topic: Virus assembly, egress and host cell interactions
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology (Virology Division)
Email: cmc56@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/colin-crump
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Nik Cunniffe
Topic: Modelling the spread, detection, evolution and control of plant pests and pathogens.
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Infection and Immunity
Department: Plant Sciences
Email: njc1001@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/directory/cunniffe-nik
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Emma Davenport
Topic: Functional genomics
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: ed5@sanger.ac.uk
Website: www.davenportlab.com
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Prof Daniela De Angelis
Topic: Evidence synthesis to inform health
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Infection and Immunity
Department: MRC Biostatistics Unit
Email: daniela.deangelis@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/people/in-alphabetical-order/a-to-g/daniel...
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Maike de la Roche
Topic: Hedgehog signalling in the immune system
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity
Department: Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
Email: Maike.DeLaRoche@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/de-la-roche-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Lida Derevnina
Topic: Plant immunity, effector biology, host pathogen interaction
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: LD645@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/groups/crop-pathogen-immunity
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr John Doorbar
Topic: Human papilloma viruses (HPVs)
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: jd121@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/john-doorbar
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Ming-Qing Du
Topic: Lymphomagenesis; molecular pathology in diagnosis and prognosis
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Pathology (Molecular Histopathology Division)
Email: mqd20@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/ming-du
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Maria Adelaida Duque Correa
Topic: Intestinal parasitic worms and impact of infection on stem cells
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Email: mad75@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/dr-maria-duque-correa
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr James Edgar
Topic: Membrane trafficking; MHC Class II antigen presentation
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology (Division of Immunology)
Email: je333@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/james-edgar
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Sebastian Eves-van den Akker
Topic: Plant-parasite/pathogen interactions
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: se389@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/sebastianevesvandenakker
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Brian Ferguson
Topic: Innate immune sensing of viruses
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology (Immunology Division)
Email: bf234@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.fergusonlab.path.cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Rob Finn
Topic: Computational approaches to understanding microbiomes
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: European Bioinformatics Institute
Email: rdf@ebi.ac.uk
Website: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/finn
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Andrew Firth
Topic: RNA virus gene expression, comparative genomics and molecular biology
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: aef24@cam.ac.uk
Website:https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/andrew-firth
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Andres Floto
Topic: Innate immunity; bacterial genetics; antibiotic discovery
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: arf27@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.hlri.cam.ac.uk/investigators/andres-floto/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Gillian Fraser
Topic: Bacterial motility and flagella biogenesis; Bacterial export pathways
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology (Microbiology and Parasitology Division)
Email: gmf25@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/gillian-fraser
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Nicholas Gay
Topic: Human Toll like receptors in inflammatory disease
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: n.j.gay@bioc.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/gay.html
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Cedric Ghevaert
Topic: Megakaryocyte and platelet biology In vitro production of cellular components for transfusion in humans
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: cg348@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/ghevaert
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Camilla Godlee
Topic: Investigating the interactions of pathogenic bacteria with eukaryotic membranes
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry 
Email: cbjg2@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/faculty/camilla-godlee
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Ian Goodfellow
Topic: Characterisation of virus-host interactions
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Pathology (Virology Division)
Email: ig299@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/research/investigators/goodfellow/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Stephen Graham
Topic: Virus:host interactions
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Pathology
Email: scg34@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/research/investigators/graham/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Andrew Grant
Topic: Microbial Pathogenesis
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: ajg60@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/ajg60%40cam.ac.uk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Harriet Groom
Topic: Retroviruses (HIV), SARS-CoV2, host-virus interactions
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: hctg2@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.groomlab.co.uk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Tim Halim
Topic: Cancer immunology - the role of innate lymphoid cells
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Oncology (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
Email: Tim.Halim@cruk.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/halim-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jake Harris
Topic: Epigenetics, chromatin, immunity
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: cjh92@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/chromatin-and-memory
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Jonathan Heeney
Topic: Zoonotic Viruses innate host responses and transcriptome subtraction for detection of novel viruses immunity and vaccine design
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: jlh66@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/jlh66@cam.ac.uk
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Daniel Hodson
Topic: Elucidating the mechanisms of transformation from normal B lymphocyte to malignant B cell lymphoma
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: djh1002@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/hodson
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Florian Hollfelder
Topic: Synthetic and chemical biology: mechanistic enzymology, directed evolution, technologies for droplet microfluidics, since cell transciptomics, developmental cell biology in 3D
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: fh111@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://hollfelder.bioc.cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Mark Holmes
Topic: Infectious diseases
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: mah1@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Nick Holmes
Topic: CD45: T lymphocyte activation
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Pathology (Immunology Division)
Email: nh106@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/nick-holmes
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Liz Hook
Topic: Innovating Protein Technologies for Therapeutic and Vaccine Design
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: ceh25@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/liz-hook
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Mark Howarth
Topic: Innovating Protein Technologies for Therapeutic and Vaccine Design
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pharmacology
Email: mh2186@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/Howarth/research
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Kate Hughes
Topic: The interactions between different cell types within the mammary gland during regression at the end of lactation
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: kh387@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/hughes
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Nerea Irigoyen
Topic: Understanding the role of Zika virus genome translation in viral pathogenicity and disease
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Pathology (Virology Division)
Email: ni236@cam.ac.uk
Website: ttps://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-nerea-irigoyen
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Leo James
Topic: Molecular basis of pathogen detection and discrimination
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: lcj@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/l-james
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr David Jayne
Topic: Autoimmunity
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: dj106@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/directory/dj106@cam.ac.uk
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Randall Johnson
Topic: The micro-physiology of tissues and how it affects growth development and disease in mammalian genetic systems
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: rsj33@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/rjohnson/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Arthur Kaser
Topic: Metabo-genetics of autoinflammation/autoimmunity (focus on Crohn's and Still's disease). Core metabolism of the cell.
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Department: Department of Medicine & Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease
Email: ak729@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.citiid.cam.ac.uk/arthur-kaser/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Vassilis Koronakis
Topic: Molecular mechanisms of toxin export; Salmonella effector proteins in eukaryotic cell entry
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology (Microbiology and Parasitology Division)
Email: vk103@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/vassilis-koronakis
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Vasilis Kosmoliaptsis
Topic: Alloantigens and HLA immunogenicity transplantation
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Surgery
Email: vk256@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://surgery.medschl.cam.ac.uk/research-staff/surgery-staff/kosmoliapt...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Dominic Kwiatkowski
Topic: Natural genetic variation (in malaria)
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: dominic@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/kwiatkowski-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Trevor Lawley
Topic: Host-microbiota interactions
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: tl2@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/lawley-lab
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Mara Lawniczak
Topic: Evolutionary genetics and genomics; Malaria; Biodiversity
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity,
Department: Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: mara@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/lawniczak-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Helen Leggett
Topic: Host-Parasite Evolution and Genetics
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: hl448@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-helen-leggett
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Paul Lehner
Topic: Viral silencing and immune evasion pathways
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: pjl30@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.citiid.cam.ac.uk/paul-lehner/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Valeria Lulla
Topic: Molecular virology of RNA viruses, organoid infection model, viral infections of CNS
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Department of Pathology, Division of Virology
Email: vl284@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://lullalab.owlstown.net/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Bidesh Mahata
Topic: Steroid-producing immune cells in regulating cancer inflammation and immunity
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: bm562@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/bidesh-mahata
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Pietro Mastroeni
Topic: Microbiology, Immunology
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: pm274@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/pm274@cam.ac.uk/
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Dr Nicholas Matheson
Topic: Viral and cellular regulation of immunometabolism - HIV, SARS-CoV-2 and the host-virus interaction
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases)
Email: njm25@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.citiid.cam.ac.uk/nick-matheson/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr William McEwan
Topic: Immunity in Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Email: wm305@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://mcewan-lab.com/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Andrew McKenzie
Topic: Transgenic models of immune and haematopoietic disorders
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: anm@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/a-mckenzie
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Ioanna Mela
Topic: DNA nanotechnology for the sensing, targeting and destruction of bacteria
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Pharmacology
Email: im337@cam.ac.uk
Website: ioannamela.com
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer
Topic: Stem cell niche pathophysiology
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Medical Imaging, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Haematology (Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Email: sm2116@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.haem.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/dr-simon-mendez-ferrer/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Vito Mennella
Topic: Molecular mechanisms of defence of airway cells from environmental pollutants and infections agents
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC TU Unit
Email: vm430@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-tox.cam.ac.uk/staff/vito-mennella
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Catherine Merrick
Topic: Malaria Parasite Biology
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: cjm48@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/catherine-merrick
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Su Metcalfe
Topic: Use of nanotechnology to deliver growth factors in vivo to promote brain repair
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Surgery
Email: smm1001@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/Networkdirectory/smm1001%40cam.ac.uk
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Prof. Yorgo Modis
Topic: Understanding the role of viral RNA and endogenous viral elements in infection and immune homeostasis using structural, biochemical, and cell-based approaches
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Medicine (Molecular Immunity Unit, MRC-LMB)
Email: ym10000@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/ymodis/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Ashley Moffett
Topic: NK cells pregnancy trophoblast HLA
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Infection and Immunity, Women's Health
Department: Department of Pathology (Immunology Division)
Email: am485@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/ashley-moffett
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Elizabeth Murchison
Topic: Transmissible cancers
Themes: Cancer, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: epm27@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.tcg.vet.cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor James Nathan
Topic: Cellular mechanisms of oxygen and nutrient sensing
Themes: Cancer, Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: jan33@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.citiid.cam.ac.uk/james-nathan/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr  Sergey Nejentsev
Topic: Genetic and functional mechanisms of susceptibility to infection
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: sn262@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/nejentsev/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Klaus Okkenhaug
Topic: PI3K in immunity infection and cancer
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: ko256@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.okkengroup.path.cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Miles Parkes
Topic: Genetics of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis: GWAS post-GWAS and clinical translation of derived knowledge
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: mp372@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/parkes/
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Julian Parkhill
Topic: Bacterial evolution and genomics
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: jp369@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://pathgenevocam.github.io
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Uta Paszkowski
Topic: Plant Molecular Genetics
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Email: up220@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/utapaszkowski.html
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Nazima Pathan
Topic: Pathophysiology of multi-organ failure in critical illness
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Paediatrics
Email: np409@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://paediatrics.medschl.cam.ac.uk/about-us/people/senior-academic-sta...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Virginia Pedicord
Topic: Microbiota effects on host physiology
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: vap33@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.citiid.cam.ac.uk/virginia-pedicord/
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Mr Gavin Pettigrew
Topic: Alloantigen recognition and antigen presentation (transplantation immunology)
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Surgery
Email: gjp25@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/directory/gjp25@cam.ac.uk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Stefano Pluchino
Topic: regenerative neuroimmunology; progressive multiple sclerosis; cellular senescence; mitochondrial metabolism;
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Clinical Neurosciences
Email: spp24@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.pluchinolab.org
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Taufiq Rahman
Topic: Calcium signalling, chemical modulation of ion channels and receptors, rational drug design, computer-aided drug discovery
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pharmacology
Email: mtur2@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/rahman
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan
Topic: The pathogenesis of tuberculosis and the basis of vastly different susceptibilities to this disease
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: lr404@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/Ramakrishnan/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Felix Randow
Topic: Cell-autonomous and innate immunity
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: randow@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/f-randow
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Prof Julian Rayner
Topic: Using molecular understanding of malaria parasites to identify and prioritise drug and vaccine targets
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
Email: jcr1003@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-julian-rayner
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Olivier Restif
Topic: Mathematical models for infectious disease dynamics
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: or226@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/or226@cam.ac.uk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Rahul Roychoudhuri
Topic: Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: rr257@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://roychoudhurilab.org/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Kourosh Saeb-Parsy
Topic: Transplantation, Regenerative Medicine and Cancer Immunotherapy
Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Surgery
Email: ks10014@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.saeb-parsy.group.cam.ac.uk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Henrik Salje
Topic: Infectious disease dynamics
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Genetics
Email: hs743@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr. Jeanne Salje
Topic: Cell biology of obligate intracellular bacteria
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: CIMR/Biochemistry/Pathology
Email: jss53@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-jeanne-salje
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor George Salmond
Topic: Bacterial signalling gene regulation and protein secretion
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: gpcs@bioc.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/salmond.html
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Milka Sarris
Topic: Immune cells and how they navigate through tissues in vivo to mount inflammatory responses
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: ms543@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/milka-sarris
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Wilhelm Schwaeble
Topic: The role of complement in health and disease
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: hws24@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.research.vet.cam.ac.uk/research-staff-directory/principal-in...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Andrew Sharkey
Topic:
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: as168@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.repro.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-andrew-sharkey
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor John Sinclair
Topic: Host virus interactions during cytomegalovirus latent and lytic infection
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Medicine
Email: js152@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.citiid.cam.ac.uk/john-sinclair/
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Derek Smith
Topic: Evolution of pathogens
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Zoology
Email: d.smith@zoo.cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/derek-smith
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Ken Smith
Topic: Immune regulation autoimmunity and disease outcome
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Medicine
Email: kgcs2@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.citiid.cam.ac.uk
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Elizabeth Soilleux
Topic: Interesting projects available in immunity (TCR/BCR repertoire) cancer biology (esp lymphoma) histopathological imaging bioinformatics AI and clinical data handling. Active collaborations with the vet school maths engineering and industry
Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Medical Imaging, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pathology
Email: ejs17@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/elizabeth-soilleux
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Nicole Soranzo
Topic: Human complex traits
Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: ns6@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/soranzo-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Alana Thackray
Topic: Molecular pathology of prion diseases, viral infection and immunity, infectious diseases
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: amt27@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/amt27%40cam.ac.uk
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Nicholas Thomson
Topic: Bacterial genomics and evolution
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: nrt@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/thomson-group
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Teresa Tiffert
Topic: Homeostasis of human erythrocytes in health and disease; calcium regulation in malaria-infected erythrocyte
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells,
Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Email: jtt1000@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/tiffert/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Laurence Tiley
Topic: Influenza virus infection dynamics and vaccine development
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: lst21@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-laurence-tiley
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Richard Timms
Topic: Genetic interrogation of the ubiquitin-proteasome system
Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Medicine (CITIID)
Email: rtt20@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.timmslab.com
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr  Caroline Trotter
Topic: Epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases and the impact of immunisation
Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: clt56@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/clt56@cam.ac.uk
Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Dan Tucker
Topic: Virus diseases of pigs
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: awt1000@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/awt1000@cam.ac.uk/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Martin Turner
Topic: Lymphocyte development and activation
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Babraham Institute
Email: martin.turner@babraham.ac.uk
Website: http://www.babraham.ac.uk/our-research/lymphocyte/martin-turner
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Hendrik van Veen
Topic: Molecular mechanisms of multidrug transporters
Themes: Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Pharmacology
Email: hwv20@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/vanveen
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Roser Vento-Tormo
Topic: Celluar genetics
Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Women's Health
Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: rv4@sanger.ac.uk
Website: https://ventolab.org/
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Ross Waller
Topic: Molecular function, diversity and evolution in cells
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: rfw26@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.wallercellevolution.com
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Michael Weekes
Topic: Innate immune evasion by intracellular pathogens
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Medicine (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: mpw1001@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-michael-weekes
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Lucy Weinert
Topic: The ecology and genomics of bacterial pathogens
Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: lw461@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.research.vet.cam.ac.uk/research-staff-directory/principal-in...
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Martin Welch
Topic: Microbial Cell-Cell Communication
Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology (incl. Plant Biology), Infection and Immunity, Molecules and Cells
Department: Biochemistry
Email: mw240@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/welch
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Tim Williams
Topic: Biology of extracellular vesicles and biomarkers of renal disease
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: tlw27@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/tlw27
Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Mark Wills
Topic: Immunobiology of human cytomegalovirus
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases)
Email: mrw1004@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/wills/
Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor James Wood
Topic: Epidemiology, emergence and control of zoonotic infections
Themes: Infection and Immunity
Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine
Email: jlnw2@cam.ac.uk
Website: https://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-james-wood-obe
Applications from potential students are welcome

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