Author Archives: William James

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)

 

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.

Visit report JSP 2015 Chua CL

JSPP_Report_Yannick_Debing

Graduate studentship competitions for 2013

Graduate scholarships for PhD students in the JamesLab are available through two competitive schemes.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

 

 

 

 

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.