Barnabas King PhD

Barnabas King took up the role of Assistant Professor in Virology in April 2023. He is Teaching and Learning-focused with a remit to research and publish on areas of pedagogy relevant to the improvement of teaching and assessment in the School of Life Sciences. His background is in virology, particularly molecular biology and cell culture: he completed 3 post-doctoral roles in virus research at the UoN for 8 years as a post-doc in the School of Life Sciences and the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science. Following that, he was the Safety and Facilities Coordinator for the Biodiscovery Institute (BDI) at the UoN for 3 years from May 2020 and helped facilitate the recovery of research activities from the pandemic lockdowns.

His PhD in Molecular Virology (University of Leeds - 2012) was titled, "Characterising the membrane topology and intra-membrane protein interactions of non-structural protein 2 (NS2) of hepatitis C virus (HCV)." He has been a visiting researcher at the John Innis Centre, UK; the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala and the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil. His career in virus research began during his undergraduate degree and subsequent technician role in the virus research group at Newcastle University.