Upcoming Events

Hello and welcome to the Virus Host Interaction Team! (VHIT)

International Virtual Seminars on Arbovirus Biology

Chaired and organised by Tem Morrison (Colorado) and Clive McKimmie (VHIT, Leeds).

Great speakers bringing the best in arbovirus research

See out twitter profile for latest updates:

https://twitter.com/ArbovirusS

We are a dedicated group of researchers at the University of Leeds that investigate the complex and fascinating interactions that occur between disease-causing viruses and the mammalian host. We have a particular interest in viruses that are spread by arthropods, such as mosquitoes. These viruses, also known as arboviruses, represent an important class of emerging infections that constitute an increasing threat to human and animal health. Important arboviruses include dengue virus, chikungunya virus, West Nile virus and the Zika virus.

Check out our University of Leeds website too.

Newsfeed

Social to thank Çağdaş for visiting the group

No excuse needed to go out and relax, while saying farewell to Çağdaş who had a summer internship working with Yonca in our group. Çağdaş...

Group social to say both farewell and welcome!

First group social in like… forever! Saying goodbye to Lewis our wonderful masters student and hello to the fabulous new Zahra. That’s 3...

New PhD student Yonca Keskek Türk starts in the lab

It with great please that we welcome Yonca to the group. She is our second PhD student to start this year. This is particularly...

Ailish McCafferty joins VHIT as new MRC PhD student

Despite COVID lockdowns causing complete chaos, Ailish has managed to start her PhD in style. Ailish has superb pedigree, having been...

Daniella's mosquito spit paper is out on BioRxiv

Daniella's paper has been posted on BioRxiv. We're happy with all the input so far from the research community on twitter, making it one...

Clive interviewed by Microbiology Society for their series on "why microbiology matters"

https://microbiologysociety.org/membership/meet-our-members/focus-area-viruses/an-interview-with-dr-clive-mckimmie.html

Steven's piece for The Conversation gets over 35K reads

To help explain Steven's recent Science Translation Medicine paper, he decided to explain the significance of the work for a...

Media interest in paper has blown us away

Following publication of Steven's paper in Science Translational Medicine we were inundated with media requests for comment. It really...

Welcome to Marleen, our latest fabulous VHIT member

Marleen van der Lann, a post-graduated student from the Univeristy of Groningen, started toady in the lab with VHIT. Pictured here with...

We made the front cover! :-D

Steven has truly excelled himself following publication of his PhD project in the top tier journal, Science Translational Medicine....

Daniella goes 'viral' with her podcast interview

Daniella's work features in the Microbiology Society's podcast MICROTALK. https://soundcloud.com/microbiosoc/mosquito-saliva-and-its-enha...

VHIT's Clive McKimmie chairs BSI session on Leukocyte trafficking

At this years British Society of Immunology (BSI) annual congress, we were fortunate to have a really engaging selection of speakers...

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