Connor Bamford

I am currently a Wellcome-ISSF Early Career Research Fellow at Queen's University Belfast (Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, WWIEM) researching the role of interferon signalling in providing immunity to viral and bacterial infections in the lung. My work focuses on identifying novel molecular aspects of type 3 interferon lambda signalling in order to promote immunity. Before this I was a postdoc in the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) with Prof. John McLauchlan investigating the interaction between hepatitis C virus and interferon lambda 4. My Phd was with Paul Duprex and Bert Rima in Belfast on an MRC-funded project on developing molecular virological tools to study mumps virus infection and pathogenesis to aid vaccine development.