Inaugural Lecture: Professor Julian Hiscox - Ebola - you live or die: Why do viruses cause disease and what determines outcomes?
5:30pm - 6:30pm /
Thursday 10th March 2016
Type: Lecture /
Category: Department
- 0151 795 9607
- Doreen Owen
- Admission: Free event but please register by emailing dmowen@liverpool.ac.uk for catering purposes
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In humans infected with Ebola virus patients have on average a 50% chance of death. We have been working on Ebola virus since 2012 and developed models of Ebola evolution and molecular biology with long term collaborators at Public Health England. We have been analysing patient samples since the start of the West African Ebola virus outbreak in March 2014. Using the high resolution approaches developed to study other viral pathogens in the laboratory, we have been able to delineate molecular markers in acute Ebola patients that allows us to predict either a fatal or non-fatal outcome. The work is a large collaborative effort with national and international partners and this lecture will take you through the story of the recent Ebola outbreak and how science has helped support and brought the outbreak under control.
About the speaker
Julian Hiscox was appointed Chair in Infection and Global Health at Liverpool in 2012. He started his academic career at University College London completing a degree in Genetics in 1991. He undertook a PhD at the Pirbright Institute and then moved to the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1994. He was appointed a Lecturer in Virology at the University of Reading in 1999 where he started work on investigating virus/host interactions focusing on coronaviruses. In 2003 he moved to the University of Leeds where his group developed research on respiratory and emerging hemorrhagic fevers using high resolution approaches such as proteomics and deep sequencing. Julian brought this research to Liverpool where he leads and takes credit for the hard work of his lab. He balances this academic work with mountain bike riding, kung fu and playing swords and toys with his two sons.
About the speaker
Julian Hiscox was appointed Chair in Infection and Global Health at Liverpool in 2012. He started his academic career at University College London completing a degree in Genetics in 1991. He undertook a PhD at the Pirbright Institute and then moved to the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1994. He was appointed a Lecturer in Virology at the University of Reading in 1999 where he started work on investigating virus/host interactions focusing on coronaviruses. In 2003 he moved to the University of Leeds where his group developed research on respiratory and emerging hemorrhagic fevers using high resolution approaches such as proteomics and deep sequencing. Julian brought this research to Liverpool where he leads and takes credit for the hard work of his lab. He balances this academic work with mountain bike riding, kung fu and playing swords and toys with his two sons.