Welcome to the Towers Lab
We aim to understand the molecular details of host virus interactions, to develop novel therapeutic approaches for viral infection and to use viruses to help us understand mammalian cell biology and evolution.
An exploding virus and a model HIV capsid are displayed by John Walter, our artist in residence in Infection, at the Edinbrugh Sculpture Workshop.
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Public Engagement
To read more about our schools days visit our Public Engagement and news pages
Greg was interviewed for a series of videos on HIV for 'Serious Science', January - August 2017
'Retroviruses in Gene Therapy' and 'Innate Immunity' are among the videos presented by Greg for 'Serious Science', an organisation whose mission is 'to spread knowledge and share the greatest advances in various realms of academia with our readers'.
Chris Presents 'The Truth about .... HIV' on BBC1, June 2017
Chris looks at the history of HIV and how far treatments have come. He interviews people with the disease and investigates the new PrEP treatment and it's promising outlook for the future.
'Outbreak!' goes to Gayhurst Science Week. June 2017
Greg and Richard took Lucy's 'Outbreak!' event to Gayhurst School for some diagnostic fun during science week.
Greg took part in the Wellcome Trust debate to explore the role of expertise, May 2017
The inaugural 'Outbreak!' public engagement event with Inspire! at UCL. March 2017
Lucy Thorne's 'Outbreak!' public engagement event had it's first UK run with children through Inspire! Education Business Partnership
John Walter presents HIV capsid at the Edinbrugh Sculpture workshop. Feb 2017
Dr Chris van Tulleken films for an HIV BBC documentary. July 2016
Chris has been filming in South Africa for a new BBC documentary on the history of HIV.
John Walter has won a Wellcome Turst Large Arts Award to be resident artist in the Towers Lab, June 2016
John has secured a Wellcome Trust Large Arts Award (number:203868/Z/16/Z) for his project "CAPSID"
Visit to Gayhurst School, April 2016
Greg, Richard and Dr Chris visited Gayhurst to teach about the incredible world of viruses, bacteria and other pathogens.
iDiscover visits the lab, June 2015
Children visited our teaching labs to learn about viruses and other pathogens large and small as part of iDiscover week organised by Inspire!
Cheltenham Science Fair, June 2015
Greg and Chris presented 'Viruses: Sneezes and Gore' at the Cheltenham Science Fair on 6th June.
News
Read more about the Towers lab news on our News page.
Towers Lab picnic, July 2017
Chris earns his PhD, June 2017
Celebrating Chris's successful PhD viva
Isobel and Lorena present at the 9th Blizard Institute HIV Symposium, June 2017
Cold Spring Harbor Retrovirus Meeting, May 2017
Claire Kerridge presented at CSH
EMBO J publication, Jan 2017
Dr Petra Mlcochova from our colaborators, the Gupta group, has had her paper 'A G1‐like state allows HIV‐1 to bypass SAMHD1 restriction in macrophages' published in EMBO J.
Dr Doug Fink visits the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Dec 2016
Dr Doug Fink and Dr Oseme Etomi at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research in Lagos, Nigeria as part of a visit supported by the UCL Development Fund.
Recent Publications, 2016
Nature
Our collaborative work with Dr Leo James has been published in Nature.
David A. Jacques, William A. McEwan, Laura Hilditch, Amanda J. Price, Greg J. Towers, Leo C. James. HIV-1 uses dynamic capsid pores to import nucleotides and fuel encapsidated DNA synthesis. Nature. 2016 Aug 18;536(7616):349-53
Journal of Virology
We have also recently published with Dr Julia García Pradoin Journal of Virology.
Jimenez E, Ruiz A, Kløverpris HN, Rodriguez-Plata MT, Peña R, Blondeau C, Selwood DL, Izquierdo-Useros N, Moris A, Clotet B, Goulder P, Towers GJ, Prado JG. Non-human TRIM5 variants enhance recognition of HIV-1-infected cells by CD8+ T cells. (J Virol. 2016 Jul 20. pii: JVI.00819-16. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 27440884),
Journal of Biological Chemistry
We have published with Prof David Selwood in Journal Of Biological Chemistry.
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J, Pryce G, Hill JM, Shi X, Lennerås F, Puentes F, Kip M, Hilditch L,
Walker P, Simone MI, Chan AW, Towers GJ, Coker AR, Duchen MR, Szabadkai
G, Baker D, Selwood DL. Selective Inhibition of the Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Pore
Protects against Neurodegeneration in Experimental Multiple Sclerosis (J Biol Chem. 2016 Feb 26;291(9):4356-73. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M115.700385. Epub 2015 Dec 17. PMID: 26679998).
BSc results, July 2016
Congratulations to our summer students Meiyin Lin (UCL) and Elysia Upton (Imperial College London) who achieved firsts in their BSc degrees.
Postdoctoral Vacancies, July 2016
We will soon be advertising for 2 Research Associates for posts funded by a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship entitled “Characterisation of innate immune DNA sensing and viral evasion strategies”. Check back for more information in late August/early September or go to our recruitment page.
Cold Spring Harbor Retrovirus Meeting, May 2016
The Towers Lab attended the Retrovirus meeting at Cold Spring Harbor.
The Towers lab presented posters at Keystone, March 2016
MariaT, Becky, Lucy and Greg attended the 2016 Keystone conference on HIV Persistence: Pathogenesis and Eradication (X7) at Squaw Creek - Olympic Valley, California, USA. MT and Greg presented posters.
Richard Miles has secured a fellowship to go to New York, Jan 2016
Richard has secured the Charlotte and Yule Bogue Research Fellowship to visit the lab of Professor Singer in New York.
Dr Doug Fink wins funding for his PhD, Jan 2016
Doug has secured a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellowship at UCL.
Towers Lab Christmas do, Dec 2015
The Towers lab and friends took their annual curry pilgrimage to 'Watch Me' in South Wimbledon for Christmas.
We are funded by Senior Biomedical Research Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust No 090940 to Professor Greg Towers and also by: a European Research Council Advanced Award, a Medical Research Council confidence in concept award, a UCL Business proof of concept award, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre and the UCL MRC Centre for Medical Molecular Virology.
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