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Porterfield Prizewinner publication
Chong Long Chua, from the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a winner of the 2015 Prize, who worked with Andre Merits at the Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, has just published the following paper from the work:
Antigenic Variation of East/Central/South African and Asian Chikungunya Virus Genotypes in Neutralization by Immune Sera (2016)
Porterfield Prize 2016 open for applications
Visiting students’ reports 2015
See links below for the reports of the two recipients of the Porterfield Prize 2015.
Chong Long Chua travelled from his home laboratory in Kuala Lumpur to that of Professor Andres Merits in Estonia, to undertake the reverse genetics of Chikungunya viruses, isolated in Malaysia, in order to study the neutralization epitopes of these viruses
Yannick Debbing travelled from his home laboratory in Leuven to that of Professor Bruno Canard in Marseille to develop an in vitro assay for the Hepatitis E virus RNA polymerase.
Porterfield Prize funds Filovirus research
Read Nadia Storm’s report on her research visit to Hokkaido University from Pretoria, funded in part by a James S Porterfield Prize in International Virology, in which she undertook very timely work to develop new diagnostic reagents for Filoviruses, such as Marburg and Ebola viruses.
Prizewinner’s report
Karen Ocwieja’s report of her Porterfield Prize-sponsored work in Sri Lanka is to befound here
Graduate studentship competitions for 2013
Graduate scholarships for PhD students in the JamesLab are available through two competitive schemes.
- Four year Wellcome Trust DPhil programme in Infection, Immunology and Translational Medicine. This involves three rotations in year 1 between laboratories in different departments of the Medical Sciences Division in Oxford. Further details here.
- Four year DPhil Departmental Prize Studentship Competition. This is spent entirely within one laboratory at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology. Closing date 4th January 2013. Further detals here.
Prize competition 2013 announced
James S Porterfield Prize in International Virology 2013
Closing date January14th 2013
This prize (£600) is to be awarded by open competition to up to two students of virology registered for a degree at any University worldwide.
James S Porterfield Prize 2012 award winner
The inaugural prize has been awarded to Karen Ocwieja, who is studying for an MD-PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. She will be travelling to the Genetech Research Institute, Sri Lanka to study the “Phylogeography and molecular epidemiology of an epidemic strain of dengue” under the supervision of Dharshan De Silva.