My background is in the molecular biology of human viral pathogens, specifically HIV (tat/TAR interactions, at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge), poliovirus (secondary structure of 5' non-coding RNA in neurovirulence and vaccine attenuation, with Prof Jeff Almond) and coronaviruses, in the pre-SARS era (with Prof Stuart Siddell, then in Wuerzburg, Germany).






