Alumni

DPhil Students

Former D.Phil. students:

1. Davor Pavlovic (2002-2004): Glycobiology/Virology Studentship; "Ion Channel Activities of HCV and BVDV p7 Proteins."
2. Costin-Ioan Popescu (2002-2005): Glycobiology/Virology Studentship; "Maturation and Processing of Endogenous and Viral proteins in the Endoplasmic Reticulum."
3. Mark Hussey (2002-2006): Glycobiology/Virology Studentship; "Antiviral Mechanism of Iminosugars Against Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Virus”
4. Jonathon Pleat MA, MRCS (2002-2006): Stoke Mandeville Scholarship; "Proteomic Analysis of Human Scarring."
5. Bevin Gangadharan (2002-2006): MRC Studentship; "Proteomics in Viral Disease"
6. Thomas Whitfield (2004-2008): Glycobiology/Virology Studentship; "Biophysical and Functional Characterisation of the Hepatitis C Virus p7 ion channel"
7. Stephanie Pollock (2004-2008): Institute of Canadian Health Scholarship and Glycobiology/Virology Studentship; "Developing strategies for drug delivery and treatment of HIV and HCV"
8. Thien Ho (2004-2009, with paternity leave): "Antiviral Gene Silencing in Wild Grass" (co-supervisor)
9. Cameron Dunlop (2005-2009): Wellcome Trust 4 Year Programme in Structural Biology; “A synthetic approach to breaking the immunotolerance of HIV-1 glycans” (co-supervisor)
10. Philipp Luik (2006-2010): Glycobiology/Virology Studentship; "Biophysical Characterisation of the Hepatitis C Virus p7 ion channel"
11. Sally Latham (2006-2010): Glycobiology/Virology Studentship; "Antiviral Mechanism of Action of Iminosugar derivatives against Hepatitis C"
12. Sam Cooper (2006-2010): BBSRC DTA 4 Year Programme; “Proteomic Analyses of Interferon Responses in Cultured Liver Cells”
13. Melanie Beer (2009-2013): Glycobiology/Virology Studentship “Hepatocellular lipid metabolism in Hepatitis C Virus infection”
14. Ben Oestringer (2009-2013): Glycobiology/Virology Studentship; “Structural and Electrophysiological Analyses of the Hepatitis C Virus p7”
15. Christabel Kelly (2010-2013): Wellcome Trust 3 Year D.Phil. in Biomedical and Clinical Sciences; “The Role of IFN-l3 in Hepatitis C Virus viral control” (co-supervisor)
16. John Leon Kiappes (2010-2014): Joined Oxford Scripps Skaggs Programme; “Synthesis and Biological Characterization of Natural and Designed Sugars ”
17. Drew Sayce (2010-2014): Clarendon Studentship; “Iminosugars as dengue virus therapeutics: Molecular mechanisms of action of a drug entering clinical trials”
18. Emma Dixon (2010-2014): Wellcome Trust 4 Year Programme in Structural Biology; “Mechanisms of immunoglobulin deactivation by Streptococcus pyogenes”
19. Simon Spiro (2011-2014): Wellcome Trust student in Infection, Immunology and Translational Medicine (IITM); “The mechanism of action of iminosugars as antiretrovirals”
20. Alessandro Caputo (2011-2016): Wellcome Trust 4 Year Programme in Structural Biology; “Structual and biochemical characterisation of the endoplasmic reticulum alpha-glucosidases”
21. Johan Hill (2015-2018): Wellcome Trust Student in Structural Biology; "Structural characterisation of calnexin cycle components and assessment as antiviral targets"
22. Beatrice Tyrrell (2015-2019): Wellcome Trust student in Infection, Immunology and Translational Medicine (IITM); "Antiviral and immunomodulatory activities of iminosugars: candidate therapeutics for arbovirus infections"
23. Nilanka Perera (2016-2019): Commonwealth scholarship; "Evaluating the effects of dengue and iminosugar treatment on cellular unfolded protein response and redox homeostasis"
24. Mario Hensen (2016-2020): Glycobiology/Virology Studentship; “Structural and functional studies of the antiviral target proteins HCV p7 and ER alpha-glucosidase II”
25. Juliane Brun (2017-2021): Wellcome Trust student in Infection; Immunology and Translational Medicine (IITM)
26. Tehmi Bharucha (2018-2022): Medical Research Council funding; "Novel diagnostics for Central Nervous System infections in Asia: Applying Proteomics Approaches to Identify Biomarkers for Japanese encephalitis virus"
27. Fergus Bremner (2020-2023): Chang-EPA Doctoral Scholarship; "Investigating the inhibition of endoplasmic reticulum α-Glucosidase II for the development of broad-spectrum antivirals"

Current D. Phil. students (with start date):

28. Priyadarshini Chatterjee (2022-)

29. Yohan Arman (2022-)

MSc students

Kelly Skelton (2010-2012): Glycobiology/Virology Studentship; MSc on “Intracellular trafficking of antiviral ER targeting liposomes”