Biochemistry of innate immunity with Adam Fletcher

The CVR Presents Research Goes Viral

Season 2 Episode: 6 I hope you enjoyed last week’s episode with Jack, Douglas and Greg Towers because now we’re continuing on that theme and speaking with Dr Adam Fletcher, a fellow innate/intrinsic immunity enthusiast, like Greg. Adam (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=cEzmpPEAAAAJ&hl=en), has led work on fantastic papers onto the detailed molecular mechanisms that our cells use to seek, destroy and ultimate block disease-causing viruses, like HIV, from infecting us. One example if the very recent paper in Cell Host & Microbe https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1931312818305456 (from which our cover image is from). Adam worked previously with Leo James at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology or LMB in Cambridge, and actually with Greg Towers at University College London. Adam is currently a postdoc working 'around the corner' from us here at in the CVR at the University of Dundee, MRC PPU. In this episode, Adam tells us about his work on antiviral immunity and what it is like being an early-career researcher in virology. As always, you can find our previous content on antiviral immunity over at cvrblog.myportfolio.com, email us at [email protected] or tweet us @CVRblog Join us next week, where we’ll be joined by Dr Marlene Dreux, who tell us some more about the antiviral immune response through the lens of cell biology. Featuring: Elihu Aranday-Cortes, Connor Bamford and Adam Fletcher. Editing: Connor Bamford Music: Inspire - Benjamin Tissot - www.bensound.com