Barr Lab members

Current

Rachel Dods: Rachel is a Leeds University graduate, and is currently studying the structure and function of the HRSV M2-1 protein.

Andrew Buckley: Andrew recently gained his PhD here in the lab, and is now working on designing inhibitors to the HRSV M2-1 protein.

Emma Punch: Emma is working on the structure and function of the nairovirus nucleocapsid protein using electron microscopy, and designing RNP assembly inhibitors.

Samantha Hover: Sam is a recent graduate of University of Leeds and is working on the entry mechanism of Bunyamwera virus.

Katherine Davies: Kat recently graduated from The University of Manchester, and is working on the structure and function of the hantavirus nucleocapsid protein.

Francis Hopkins: recenly gained a masters degree at The University of Nottingham, and is using structural techniques to study the Bunyamwera virus RNP.

Amelia Shaw: Amelia has a BBSRC-funded position to study the role of virion-associated ribosomes in the arenavirus life cycle.

Georgia Pangratiou: Georgia graduated from The University of Leeds with an MBiol, and studies the structure and function of the Ebola virus VP30

Jack Fuller: Jack graduated from The University of Leeds with a first class degree, and has taken up a PhD project funded by Public Health England on the topic of Nairoviruses - co-supervised by Jamel Mankouri (Leeds) and Dr Roger Hewson (PHE - Porton Down)

Previous PhD students

Hessa Taqi: Passed viva September 2016

Andrew Buckley: PhD awarded 2016

Rebecca Surtees: PhD awarded 2015

Sian Tanner: PhD awarded 2013

Stephen Carter: PhD awarded 2013

Diane Munday: PhD awarded 2012

Kyle Dent: PhD awarded 2012

Charles-Hugues Lardeau: PhD awarded 2012

Weining Wu: PhD awarded 2011

Previous Postdoctoral fellows

Kavestri Yegambaram:

Antonio Ariza:

Cheryl Walter:

Undergraduate students

Several undergraduate students have worked in the laboratory during their final year projects. These projects tend to be relatively short, with a typical duration of 10 weeks, and they always involve real science, looking for conclusive answers to important research questions. Many students have contributed their work to scientific papers that have been published in highly respected international journals such as The Journal of Virology, RNA, FEBS letters, and The Journal of General Virology.