Dr Harriet Mears
BSc, PhD
Current positions
Lecturer in Virology
School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Mapping dynamic viral RNA structures to biological processes during infection.
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Cellular and Molecular MedicineDates
01/10/2025 to 30/09/2026
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2025Real-time estimation of immunological responses against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants in the UK
The Lancet. Infectious diseases
Combined analyses of within-host SARS-CoV-2 viral kinetics and information on past exposures to the virus in a human cohort identifies intrinsic differences of Omicron and Delta variants
PLOS Biology
Within-host SARS-CoV-2 viral kinetics informed by complex life course exposures reveals different intrinsic properties of Omicron and Delta variants
Within-host SARS-CoV-2 viral kinetics informed by complex life course exposures reveals different intrinsic properties of Omicron and Delta variants
Mouse Ifit1b is a cap1-RNA-binding protein that inhibits mouse coronavirus translation and is regulated by complexing with Ifit1c
The Journal of biological chemistry
The flavivirus polymerase NS5 regulates translation of viral genomic RNA
Nucleic Acids Research