Ebola
Ebola
Date: Monday 27th April 2015
Time: 7pm
Venue: the Victorian Bar, Tron Theatre (Trongate)
Speaker: David Bhella
The recent outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa has highlighted the global threat to human health posed by viral emergence. International travel and climate change both have the potential to bring new and life-threatening diseases to our doorstep. Dr David Bhella will discuss the causes of viral emergence and what can be done to keep us safe from new viruses entering the human population. David will be accompanied by University of Glasgow scientists who have had first-hand experience of the current Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.
About the speaker:
David is a programme-leader in the Medical Research Council – University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research. His laboratory investigates the structure of viruses, working to understand the shapes of viral protein molecules and how they interact with the host-cells that they infect. His research is largely focused on the respiratory viruses influenza A virus and respiratory syncytial virus. He is also interested in measles virus and norovirus.