Hosted by the School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. An inaugural lecture is an occasion of significance in an academic staff member's career at the University. Inaugural lectures provide newly appointed professors with the opportunity to inform colleagues, the campus community and the general public of their work to date, including current research and future plans.
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Professor David Matthews: I am primarily interested in virus host cell interactions with an emphasis on respiratory viruses, in particular adenovirus, but also coronaviruses, respiratory syncytial virus, influenza and Hendra virus. I have been looking at how these viruses interact with the host cell using state of the art techniques including laser confocal microscopy, high throughput quantitative mass spectrometry and Deep Sequencing (or Next Generation Sequencing) of virus infected cells. In collaboration with Prof Davidson here at Bristol we also apply these techniques to the study of Dengue virus.
Professor Andrew Davidson: Research activities in the laboratory focus on investigating the replication and pathogenesis of Dengue virus and coronaviruses (including MERS-CoV and feline coronavirus). High-throughput transcriptomic and proteomic approaches are being used to increase our understanding of the virus host interaction with an overall aim of developing improved antiviral agents, vaccines and diagnostics. Synthetic biology approaches are being used to produce a novel platform for future vaccine delivery.