People

Carlos Maluquer de Motes

Principal Investigator

I earned my PhD in the University of Barcelona, where I am from. After post-doctoral training in the University of Pennsylvania (US), Imperial College London and University of Cambridge I settled down at the University of Surrey in 2014 to start my own lab. Now my job is to boss people around!

Lucy Eke

Research Fellow

I obtained my PhD in Gill Elliott’s lab working on a variety of viruses including herpes simplex virus, influenza virus, zika virus and SARS-CoV-2. I joined the lab in 2022 as a Research Fellow to study novel ubiquitin ligases involved in inflammation and antiviral responses, but soon became involved with mpox and its global resurgence!

Flavia Fonseca Bagno

Research Fellow

Before joining the group I worked on development and quality control of vaccines. I am now exploring the immune evasion strategies of orthopoxviruses and loving every bit of the challenge!

Hannah Ashby

PhD student

I’m Hannah. I graduated in Veterinary Biosciences from Surrey. I then I joined the lab in 2022 with a joint Dstl/Surrey studentship to study innate immune responses to orthopoxviruses in skin cell models and how these restrict virus spread.

Ailish Ellis

PhD student

I joined the lab in 2022 to conduct my master’s research project, which involved the characterisation of the poxviral cGAMP nuclease. Then I was employed as a research assistant under Dr Becky Sumner working on an exciting project which links the cell cycle to innate immunity. Now I have a studentship to study the ISG restriction of poxviruses. The lab is so great apparently I can’t leave! 😉

Robert Radley

PhD student

Nevetha Radakrishnan

MSc student