Career overview

2015-present: Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Cardiff University School of Medicine. 2010-1015: Lecturer in Microbiology, Cardiff University School of Medicine. 2004-2010: Post-doctoral Researcher, Cardiff University School of Medicine 2003-2004: Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Wales College of Medicine 2002-2003: Research Assistant, University of Wales College of Medicine 1997-1998: Industrial Training Placement, Bacteriology, Public Health Laboratory Service Education and Qualifications

1999-2002: PhD Virology, University of Wales College of Medicine 1999-2000: Diploma in Biomedical Methods, University of Wales College of Medicine 1995-1999: BSc (Hons) Microbiology, University of Wales College of Cardiff

My research relates to the biology, immunology and diagnosis of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), as well as the development of recombinant Adenovirus vectors.

Assaifan, A.et al. 2016. Nanotextured surface on flexographic printed ZnO thin films for low-cost non-Faradaic biosensors. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8(49), pp. 33802-33810. (10.1021/acsami.6b11640) Laib Sampaio, K.et al. 2016. The contribution of pUL74 to growth of human cytomegalovirus is masked in the presence of RL13 and UL128 expression. Journal of General Virology 97, pp. 1917-1927. (10.1099/jgv.0.000475) pdf Chen, K.et al. 2016. LIR1 expressing human Natural Killer cell subsets differentially recognize isolates of human cytomegalovirus through the viral MHC Class I homolog UL18. Journal of Virology 90(6), pp. 3123-3137. (10.1128/JVI.02614-15) Murrell, I.et al. 2016. Genetic stability of BAC-deerived human cytomegalovirus during culture in vitro. Journal of Virology 90(8), pp. 3929-3943. (10.1128/JVI.02858-15) pdf Karniely, S.et al. 2016. Human cytomegalovirus infection upregulates the mitochondrial transcription and translation machineries. mBio 7(2), pp. e00029-16. (10.1128/mBio.00029-16) pdf Wilkinson, G.et al. 2015. Human cytomegalovirus: taking the strain. Medical Microbiology and Immunology 204(3), pp. 273-284. (10.1007/s00430-015-0411-4) pdf Uusi-Kerttula, H.et al. 2015. Incorporation of peptides targeting EGFR and FGFR1 into the adenoviral fibre knob domain, and their evaluation as targeted cancer therapies.. Human Gene Therapy 26(5), pp. 320-329. (10.1089/hum.2015.015) pdf Hsu, J.et al. 2015. Plasma membrane profiling defines an expanded class of cell surface proteins selectively targeted for degradation by HCMV US2 in cooperation with UL141. PLoS Pathogens 11(4), article number: e1004811. (10.1371/journal.ppat.1004811) Stack, G.et al. 2015. CD200 receptor restriction of myeloid cell responses antagonizes antiviral immunity and facilitates cytomegalovirus persistence within mucosal tissue. PLoS Pathogens 11(2), article number: e1004641. (10.1371/journal.ppat.1004641) pdf Gabaev, I.et al. 2014. Expression of the human cytomegalovirus UL11 glycoprotein in viral infection and evaluation of its effect on virus-specific CD8 T cells. Journal of Virology 88(24), pp. 14326-14339. (10.1128/JVI.01691-14)