Supervisors and Projects

The IIB supervisor pool will be over 50 senior investigators, early career researchers (ECR) and international supervisors from collaborating institutions.

To provide the highest level of support and training, we offer a co-supervisory model, with every student mentored across disciplinary and/or international boundaries.

Primary supervisors will be established infectious disease researchers with substantial funding and training records, and students will join well resourced laboratories with post-doctoral and senior research staff offering inbuilt technical expertise and day-to-day support.

Each student will have a dedicated thesis committee composed of their primary and co-supervisors and two additional ‘assessors’, inclusive of a management team member. The assessors provide independent assessment and pastoral care, and can feed back on supervisor performance.

Thesis committees will be gender balanced and inclusive of ECRs providing fresh, diverse perspectives. Students will meet assessors, independently of their supervisors quarterly, with flexible additional meetings as required. Based on UoG best-practice, a formal annual review will be completed, including reports from the student, supervisors, and assessors and overseen by the local PGR convenor.

ROTATION PROJECTS

Supervisor List

  Simon Babayan - School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine
  Francesco Baldini -School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine
  *Michael Barrett - School of Infection & Immunity 
  Roman Biek - School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine
  Matt Berriman - School of Infection & Immunity
  David Bhella - School of Infection & Immunity 
  Claire Bourke - School of Infection & Immunity 
  James Brewer - School of Infection & Immunity 
  Olwyn Byron - School of Infection & Immunity 
  Alfredo Castello - School of Infection & Immunity 
  *Sarah Cleaveland - School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine
  Julia Cordero - School of Cancer Sciences 
  Victoria Cowling - School of Cancer Sciences 
  Christina Faust - School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine
  Paula Da Fonseca - School of Molecular Biosciences 
  Ana Da Silva Filipe - School of Infection and Immunity 
  Ilan Davis - School of Molecular Biosciences
  Marieke Pingen - School of Infection & Immunity 
  Heather Ferguson - School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine
  Taya Forde - School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine
  Joe Grove - School of Infection & Immunity
  Jo Halliday - School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine
  **Virginia Howick - School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine
  Ed Hutchinson - School of Infection & Immunity
  Chris Illingworth - School of Infection & Immunity
  Roz Laing - School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine
  Poppy Lamberton -School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine
  Martin Llewellyn - School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine
  Annette MacLeod - School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine
  Megan MacLeod - School of Infection & Immunity
  Peter MacPherson - School of Health & Wellbeing
  *Rick Maizels - School of Infection & Immunity  
  Kevin Maloy - School of Infection & Immunity
  Matt Marti - School of Infection & Immunity
  Kendle Maslowski - School of Cancer Sciences
  Richard McCulloch - School of Infection & Immunity
  Alison Michie - School of Cancer Sciences 
  Simon Milling - School of Infection & Immunity
  Christopher Moxon - School of Infection & Immunity
  Massimo Palmarini - School of Infection & Immunity
  Emilie Pondeville - School of Infection & Immunity 
  Pablo Murcia - School of Infection & Immunity
  *Thomas Otto - School of Infection & Immunity
  Lisa Ranford-Cartwright - School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine
  David Robertson - School of Infection & Immunity
  *Andy Roe - School of Infection & Immunity
  Lilach Sheiner - School of Infection & Immunity
  Steven Sinkins - School of Infection & Immunity
  Laura Spagnolo - School of Molecular Biosciences
  *Daniel Streicker - School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine
  Emma Thomson - School of Infection & Immunity
  Andrew Tobin - School of Molecular Biosciences 
  *Mafalda Viana - School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine
  Daniel Wall - School of Infection & Immunity
  Ed Roberts - School of Cancer Sciences 
  Stephen Carter - School of Infection & Immunity 
  Katarzyna Mordrzynska - School of Infection & Immunity
  Brian Willett - School of Infection & Immunity
  Harriet Auty - School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine

 * donates academics who accepted a PhD student in 2023 and therefore cannot in 2024.

** currently on maternity leave.

Co-Supervisor List

Early Career Researchers will Co-Supervise PhD projects:

Benjamin Brennan
Adam Dobson
Christina Faust
Adam Fletcher
Claire Harding
Antonia Ho
Katarzyna Modrzynska
Chris Moxon
Anna Pearce
Marieke Pingel
Ed Roberts*

Co-Supervisors with expertise in fields outside infectious disease include:

Andrew Biankin - Tumour biology
Neil Bulleid  - Protein structure
Nicholas Hanley - One Health Economics
Richard Hartley - Drug design
Pasquale Maffia
David McAllister - Multimorbidity
Graeme Milligan - Cellular biochemistry
Richard Reeve - Population and ecosystem health
Kostas Tokatlidis
Helen Walden - Protein structure

 

In addition, PhD students may select Co-Supervisors at overseas partner institutions, including:

Matthew Cotten - Uganda
Mia Crampin - Malawi
Alison Elliott - Uganda
Markus Meissner - Ludwig-Maximillian University, Munich
Henry Mwandumba - Malawi
Frances Ndungu - Kenya
Karl Seydel - Malawi

 

Supervisor Movies

Some of our supervisors have produced short movies to give students a flavour of their lab, research and what their project might look like.

Prof David Bhella

Dr Julia Cordero

Dr Gill Douce

Prof Heather Ferguson

Dr Clare Harding

Dr Megan MacLeod

Prof Matthias Marti

Dr Katarzyna Modrzynska

Dr Chris Moxon

Prof Andrew Roe

Dr Lilach Sheiner

Prof Annette MacLeod

Prof Richard McCulloch

Prof Andy Waters