Infectious Diseases

Ribbon diagram of hepatitis C virus RNA polymerase indicating the substrate binding cleft.

objectives

The primary objectives of the Infectious Diseases Interest Group include the understanding of:

• the molecular basis of infectious disease,
• host responses to infection, and
• the epidemiology of infectious disease transmission.

Members include virologists, bacteriologists, mycologists, parasitologists and immunologists, based principally upon the Division of Microbiology within the School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. A major strength of the group is the substantial and ever increasing collaborations with colleagues within and without the Faculty, including the fields of biochemistry, structural biology, medicine, chemistry and physics.

Leeds is well represented in all the component disciplines necessary to provide a continuum of research expertise from the hospital bed to the combinatorial chemistry laboratory and back. The Group includes a number of well-established or new specialist groups and centres such as skin microbiology and immunology, antibiotic research, immunology and virology.

links

• The Antimicrobial Research Centre
• The Skin Research Centre
• Immunology Interest Group
• Virology Interest Group

Group members contribute to the Faculty Research Groups of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences and Pathobiological Sciences.

contact

For more information please contact

• Prof. David Rowlands,
  email d.j.rowlands@leeds.ac.uk,
  tel. +44/0 113 233 5641.