Available Studentships 2020/21

Wellcome-Wolfson Institute For Experimental Medicine

• Klebsiella pneumoniae type VI secretion system: antimicrobial resistance, and virulence genes dissemination
• Uncovering new mechanisms of host subversion by the respiratory pathogen Legionella pneumophila
• A Role for Proteases in Strepococcus Pneumoniae infection, lung inflammation and injury
• Understanding mechanisms of lung destruction in patients with non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary infection
• Paediatric airway epithelium in health and disease: cross-talk between paediatric airway epithelium and dendritic cells following respiratory virus infection
• Identifying novel strategies to block rhinovirus infections through the analysis of virus-host protein-protein interactions in infected cells
• Elucidating novel disease mechanisms in sepsis
• Targeting bacterial protein glycosylation in pathogenic bacteria as a novel anti-virulence strategy