Members

Our team

Research Group Leader

Professor Julian A. Hiscox
julian.hiscox@liverpool.ac.uk | View full academic profile

Lab Management

Angela Cucchi, Laboratory Project Manager
angela.cucchi@liverpool.ac.uk

Jill Hudson, PA to Professor Julian Hiscox
jhudson@liverpool.ac.uk

Postdoctoral Research Associates

Dr. Stuart Armstrong leads on quantitative proteomics and works with the Pirbright Institute and the Defence Science Technology Laboratory on projects.

Dr. Xiaofeng Dong leads on bioinformatic and machine learning analysis of high-resolution sequence data.

Dr. Rebekah Penrice-Randal leads on the analysis of samples from patients with severe coronavirus infection.

Dr. Tessa Prince leads on molecular virology and the isolation and growth of viruses at high containment.

Dr. Nadine Randle leads on Defence Science Technology Laboratory projects and molecular biology.

PhD Students

Mai Almsaud works on MERS-coronavirus and interaction of proteins with the host cell.

Abdulrahman Alrezaihi works on defining severe coronavirus biology and host response in clinical samples.

Muhannad Alruwaili works on the interaction of MERS-CoV proteins with the host cell.

I’ah Donavan-Banfield works on SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV.

Hannah Goldswain works on viral population genetics in clinical samples.

Abbie Harrison works on the host response to ricin exposure.

Ben Jones works on viral co-infections for Ebola and SARS-CoV-2 – note not together!

Yan Ryan uses machine learning and direct RNA sequencing to examine stress to ricin or virus exposure.

Jack Mellors is an external PhD student at PHE working on EBOV and SARS-CoV-2.

Ghada Shawli works on viral population genetics for RSV and co-infections with SARS-CoV-2.