Lecturer in Immunology
I am a Lecturer in Immunology in the School of Medicine. I teach the subject via lectures and workshops, facilitate problem-based learning, and provide pastoral support to students.
The human immune system is an incredible product of evolution. To have the opportunity to explain how it works to students – and to further our understanding of it through research – is a privilege.
Teaching and supervision
- Year 1: Innate Immunity; Adaptive Immunity; Mucosal Immunity
- Year 2: Inflammation and Repair; Diseases of the Immune System; Gut Immunity; Hypersensitivity and Immunopathology
Research interests for potential research students
- Monogenic disorders causing immunodeficiency and/or immune dysregulation
- Autoimmunity
Research
- Finding the genetic causes and delineating the molecular mechanisms of novel primary immunodeficiencies
- Discovering the changes in the immune system that are associated with disease flare in patients with relapsing-remitting autoimmune diseases
- Developing therapies that restore self-tolerance in patients with autoimmune diseases
- Control of lymphocyte migration
- Signalling in lymphocyte development
- Regulation of T cell responses by dendritic cells