Biography

I am ecstatic to continue studying antigenic variation among dengue viruses as a PhD student in Zoology. I had the privilege doing an MPhil last year in the the Department of Zoology at Cambridge, with research at the NIH in the USA, and will continue working with both groups during the PhD. We use a technique called antigenic cartography to make ‘antigenic maps’ that depict the relationships between viruses and antibodies. I hope to build on our preliminary findings for dengue viruses to develop a more complete picture of the antigenic variation within and between dengue serotypes.