Greater Texarkana Area
Head of Biology Department Research - Emerging viruses and their replicative organelles Teaching - Biology, Microbiology, Immunology, Palaeontology Media outreach
Virology - Emerging virus research Teaching - Microbiology, Palaeontology Outreach - Promoting science by interacting with TV, radio and print news organizations
Attracting overseas biology students to UoR through TV, Radio and news work. I also run a molecular virology lab with 9 current PhD students - we study membrane-changing proteins and have a particular fondness for coronaviruses.
Research on how SARS coronavirus proteins work, designing new antivirals, and structural studies on how coronaviruses and arenaviruses are able to leave an infected cell.