A new paper has been published by the group led by Professor Peter Barlow entitled “Citrullination alters the antiviral and immunomodulatory activities of the human cathelicidin LL-37 during rhinovirus infection” in the journal Frontiers in Immunology. The study was conducted…

Peter was recently interviewed by The Telegraph about the reasons why a cure for the common cold has not yet been found. In the article by journalist Tomé Morrissy-Swan entitled “Why haven’t we cured the common cold?”, Peter talks about…

A new paper describing how the cytoskeletal protein vimentin can alter autophagosome and lysosome positioning, thus modulating autophagy, has been published in the journal PLoS One. The paper by Biskou et al., shows how intracellular organelle distribution can be altered by…

A new review article has been published entitled “Interactions Between Autophagy and the Unfolded Protein Response: Implications for Inflammatory Bowel Disease” in the journal Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. The review, authored by Dr Kirsty Hooper, Dr Peter Barlow, Dr Paul Henderson…

A new paper has been published from work conducted by members of Peter’s group, Filipa Henderson Sousa, Dr Victor Casanova and Dr Fern Findlay, which assesses the antiviral activity of the cathelicidin family of host defence peptides towards Rhinovirus, the…

In July 2017, Dr Peter Barlow was appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Medical Microbiology.  The journal, published by the Microbiology Society, covers the full breadth of Clinical Microbiology, and is co-edited by two new Editors in…