Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- Respiratory syncytial virus biology, pathogenesis, and vaccines.
- Paramyxovirus vaccine vectors, in particular Sendai virus.
- Culture and exploitation of well-differentiated primary human airway epithelium cell cultures.
Public outreach & key achievements
- Dr. Power received the QUB Postgraduate Supervisory Excellence award 2016.
- Several of Dr. Power’s students received top prizes for oral and/or poster presentations as local, national and international scientific meetings, including Lindsay Broadbent who was awarded the 2016 Sir Howard Dalton Young Microbiologist of the Year award from the Microbiology Society, for work undertaken during her PhD studies.
Research students
| PhD Title | Elucidation of novel interactions between respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and human airway epithelium predictive of severe RSV disease. |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| PhD Title | Paediatric airway epithelium in health and disease: comparative responses of airway epithelium from healthy and wheezing children to viral allergen insults. |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD Title | The generation, characterization and exploitation of recombinant Sendai virus (SeV) as a novel virus vector. |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| Current Position | Postdoctoral Research Associate, QUB |
| PhD Title | Development and characterization of an ex vivo model of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection. |
| Country | USA |
| Current Position | Postdoctoral Research Associate, the Wyss Institute at Harvard University |
| PhD Title | Exploitation of well-differentiated primary paediatric airway epithelial cell cultures (WD-PAECs) to study RSV/human host interactions. |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| Current Position | Postdoctoral Research Associate, QUB |