Infection & Immunity academic staff

Dr Rob Aitken

• Director FBLS Undergraduate School

• Antibodies of domesticated animals; antibody engineering and phage display; toxin receptor interactions; molecular methods in microbial identification.

• theme: Microbiology
• telephone: 0141 330 6659
• email: r.aitken@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=|||en~
• location: Bower Building

Professor Mike Barrett

• Professor of Biochemical Parasitology

• Novel drug targets and drug resistance in African trypanosomes.

• theme: Parasitology
• telephone: 0141 330 6904
• email: m.barrett@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=PAGP|S
• location: Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre

Dr Richard Burchmore

• The role of membrane transporters in parasite virulence and drug susceptibility.

• theme: Parasitology
• telephone: 0141 330 8612
• email: r.burchmore@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=PGPPGe
• location: Joseph Black Building

Dr Olwyn Byron

• Senior Lecturer

• Physico-chemical characterisation of biomacromolecular solution conformations and interactions using analytical ultracentrifugation and small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering as primary analytical methods.

• theme: Microbiology
• telephone: 0141 330 3752
• email: o.byron@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=Pn||ed
• location: Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre

Professor Adam Curtis

• Emeritus Professor of Cell Biology

• Fabrication and Use of Structures that Guide Neuron Extension and Allow Long Term Recording from Neurons.

• telephone: 0141 330 5147
• email: a.curtis@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/biochemistrycellbiology/researchinterests/adamcurtis/
• location: Joseph Black Building

Dr Robert Davies

• Senior Lecturer

• Population biology and molecular evolution of pathogenic bacteria. Bacteriophages and bacterial evolution. Outer membrane proteins and their roles in bacterial pathogenesis. Development of organ and tissue culture methods for studying bacterial adherence. Molecular mechanisms involved in bacterial adherence and colonization.

• theme: Microbiology
• telephone: 0141 330 6685
• email: r.l.davies@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=||A~dP
• location: Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre

Dr Harry de Koning

• Reader

• Identification and characterisation of novel transporters in trypanosomes.

• theme: Parasitology
• telephone: 0141 330 3753
• email: h.de-koning@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=P~A~P|
• location: Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre

Dr Gill Douce

• Senior Lecturer

• The development of new and potentially more effective forms of vaccination.

• theme: Microbiology
• telephone: 0141 330 2842
• email: g.douce@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=P~An|Q
• location: Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre

Dr Heather Ferguson

• BBSRC David Phillips Fellow

• Behavioural and evolutionary ecology of parasites and their insect vectors; population dynamics;

• theme: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
• telephone: not available
• email: h.ferguson@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=PeP~dd

Dr Sheila Graham

• Reader

• Regulation of late events in the HPV-16 life cycle in response to epithelial cell differentiation.

• theme: Microbiology
• telephone: 0141 330 3464
• email: s.v.graham@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=Pe~~~~
• location: Joseph Black Building

Professor Paul Hagan

• Dean; Professor of Parasitology

• Immunology and epidemiology of human schistosomiasis.

• theme: Parasitology
• telephone: 0141 330 2545
• email: dean@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=PS|neG
• location: Wolfson Link Building

Dr Tansy Hammarton

• RCUK Fellow/MRC Fellowship

• Molecular regulation of cytokinesis in Trypanosoma brucei

• theme: Parasitology
• telephone: 0141 330 6766
• email: t.hammarton@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=P~||QG
• location: Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre

Dr Richard McCulloch

• Senior Lecturer

• Recombination, repair and antigenic variation in African trypanosomes.

• theme: Parasitology
• telephone: 0141 330 5946
• email: r.mcculloch@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=PA~Gd|
• location: Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre

Dr Markus Meissner

• SULSA Reader and Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow

• Systematic analysis of essential parasite genes linked to invasion of the host cell in Toxoplasma gondii

• theme: Parasitology
• telephone: 0141 330 6201
• email: m.meissner@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=PP|een
• location: Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre

Professor Tim Mitchell

• Professor of Microbiology

• Pathogenesis of bacterial infections; Molecular action of bacterial toxins; Vaccine design.

• theme: Microbiology
• telephone: 0141 330 3749
• email: t.mitchell@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=PAGA|A
• location: Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre

Dr Catherine Moss

• Beit Memorial Fellow

• Serine peptidases of Trypanosoma brucei as drug targets

• theme: Parasitology
• telephone: 0141 330 8117
• email: cm151a@udcf.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=PeeeGQ
• location: Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre

Professor Jeremy Mottram

• Professor of Molecular and Cellular Parasitology

• Cell cycle control in trypanosomes; Roles of cysteine peptidases in the virulence of Leishmania.

• theme: Parasitology
• telephone: 0141 330 3745
• email: j.mottram@vet.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=Pe|PGn
• location: Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre

Professor Sylke Muller

• Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow

• Redox and antioxidant systems of the apicomplexan parasites Plasmodium falciparum and Toxoplasma gondii.

• theme: Parasitology
• telephone: 0141 330 2383
• email: s.muller@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=PQS|~~
• location: Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre

Dr Roger Parton

• Senior Lecturer

• Pathogenicity of Bordetella and Pasteurella species and vaccine development; Virulence factors and regulation of their expression; Interaction of bacteria and mast cells; Molecular fingerprinting of bacterial pathogens: Bordetella, Staphylococcus, Brucella.

• theme: Microbiology
• telephone: 0141 330 5844
• email: r.parton@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=Pe|GdA
• location: Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre

Dr Lisa Ranford-Cartwright

• Senior Lecturer

• Genetics and biology of the interactions between the human malaria parasite and the mosquito vector; Genetics and biology of the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.

• theme: Parasitology
• telephone: 0141 330 2639
• email: l.c.ranford-cartwright@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=P~n|nn
• location: Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre

Dr Andrew Roe

• Lecturer

• Regulation and expression of virulence factors in enterohaemorraghic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7.

• theme: Microbiology
• telephone: 0141 330 2980
• email: andrew.roe@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=Pee~Pd
• location: Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre

Dr Sonya Taylor

• Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

• The identification of multi-protein complexes involved in the development of male gametes in Plasmodium

• theme: Parasitology
• telephone: 0141 330 5569
• email: s.taylor@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=PenAed
• location: Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre

Dr Laurence Tetley

• Energy Filtering Electron Microscopy and Imaging.

• theme: Parasitology
• telephone: 0141 330 4431
• email: l.tetley@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=P|GAQS
• location: Joseph Black Building

Professor Mike Turner

• Professor of Parasitology

• Tryp genetics, genomics and drug resistance

• theme: Parasitology
• telephone: 0141 330 6629
• email: m.turner@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=PPAndn
• location: Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre

Dr Daniel Walker

• Lecturer

• Novel protein antibiotics, Outer membrane assembly in E. coli.

• theme: Microbiology
• telephone: 0141 330 5082
• email: d.walker@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=Ped|dQ
• location: Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre

Dr Donal Wall

• Lecturer

• Host-pathogen interactions during Salmonella typhimurium infection

• theme: Microbiology
• telephone: 0141 330 7123
• email: d.wall@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=PeGePS
• location: Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre

Professor Andrew Waters

• Professor of Molecular and Developmental Parasitology & Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow
• theme: Parasitology
• telephone: 0141 330 8720
• email: a.waters@bio.gla.ac.uk
• web: http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/ibls/staff/staff.php?who=PeAQAQ
• location: Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre