The Cingöz group
Dr Oya Cingöz
I received my Ph.D. under the supervision of John Coffin at Tufts University, Boston, MA and trained as a postdoctoral researcher with Stephen Goff at Columbia University, New York, NY, in the United States. After running research groups at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) and the Institute of Virology at Charite Medical School in Berlin, Germany, I recently joined the Centre for Virus Research (CVR) at the University of Glasgow as a faculty member."
Current research
We study host-virus interactions at the molecular level. All viruses inherently depend on the host cell machinery to go through the replication cycle and to produce infectious progeny. In turn, host cells have evolved multiple mechanisms to interfere with viral replication, including the innate immune pathways and restriction factors that interfere with different stages of the viral replication cycle. Collectively, these processes determine the outcome of infection at the cellular level.
We are particularly interested in the molecular mechanisms of host restriction, how viruses manage to either escape or actively-counteract these pathways, why closely related viruses may behave differently, evolutionary conservation of antiviral activity, and determinants of cross-species transmission events. We typically work with different positive- and negative-sense RNA viruses, including retroviruses, bunyaviruses, and flaviviruses.
Join the Cingöz lab
We are always looking for highly motivated students, postdocs and visiting scientists to join our group. In turn, you would receive dedicated supervision, excellent training, and career support while working in a friendly, dynamic and inclusive environment.
Joining our group is typically a lot easier if you manage to secure funding through external fellowships, and we would be happy to develop project ideas for funding applications together.
For doctoral studies, there are a few different opportunities: Centrally managed doctoral programs include BBSRC-NorthWestBio and MRC-Precision Medicine. For foreign applicants with funding from non-UK government programmes, please get in touch. For applicants from developing Commonwealth Nations, the Commonwealth PhD Scholarships offered by the CSC is a prestigious opportunity to undertake postgraduate studies in the UK.
For postdoctoral studies, the well-known international programmes include European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), and Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), in addition to country-specific programmes (e.g. Humboldt Foundation and DFG for applicants from Germany). Please note that applications for highly competitive international postdoctoral fellowships have strict internal selection deadlines, long before the official deadlines, so please enquire well in advance.
