ProfessorDaniel Davis MBE FMedSci

Dan Davis's lab hosts a range of undergraduate research projects, Masters projects and PhD studentships. Students gain a rare combination of skills in state-of-the-art microscopy, complex data analysis, molecular and cellular biology techniques, as well as insights in cancer biology and immunotherapy. Many students also gain experience of working with world-leading pharmaceutical companies. 

PhD students from the Davis lab:

1. L. Carlin | Oct 2000 – Dec 2003 | NK cell recognition
2. B. Vanherberghen | Oct 2001 – Apr 2005 | Protein transfer across the NK cell immune synapse
3. K. Eleme | Dec 2000 – Jun 2006 | Viral recognition at human NK cell immune synapses
4. S. Taner | Oct 2001 – Nov 2005 | Lipid rafts in human NK cell surveillance
5. B. Treanor | Dec 2002 – May 2006 | Probing the immune synapse with fluorescence lifetime imaging
6. P. Lannigan | Dec 2002 – Oct 2006 | Fluorescence lifetime imaging
7. C. de Almeida | May 2003 – May 2007 | Regulation of the NK cell Immunological Synapse
8. G. Williams | Oct 2003 – Sept 2007 | Intercellular transfer at NK cell immune synapses
9. S. Sowinski | Oct 2004 – Nov 2008 | New aspects of immune cell communication
10. G. Buckland | Oct 2004 – Feb 2008 | Lipid modifications in immunological receptors
11. S. Kumar | Oct 2004 – Nov 2009 | Quantitative FRET for imaging immune synapse assembly
12. A. Chauveau | Oct 2006 – Nov 2009 | Membrane nanotubes
13. S. Oddos | Oct 2006 – Nov 2010 | Novel techniques for imaging immune synapses
14. H. Evans | Oct 2007 – Dec 2010 | NK cell - macrophage communication
15. S. Pageon | Oct 2008 – May 2012 | NK cell synapse microclusters
16. A. Cartwright | Oct 2010 – Nov 2014 | The immune synapse as a gasket
17. A. Savell | Oct 2010 – 2015 | Imaging nanotubes with super-resolution microscopy
18. K. Lagrue | Oct 2011 – Aug 2015 | How does Revlimid influence the supramolecular dynamics of human immune cell recognition and communication
19. C. Barthen | Oct 2011 – Apr 2016 | HLA and disease
20. A. Oszmiana | Oct 2012 – Apr 2016 | Super-resolution imaging of NK cell recognition
21. C. Loftus | Oct 2012 – Oct 2016 | Graphene clustered antibodies for immune cell activation
22. M. Saeed | Oct 2013 – Nov 2017 | T cell actin by super-resolution microscopy
23. K. Srpan | Oct 2013 – Nov 2017 | CD16 shedding and serial killing
24. K. Walwyn-Brown | Oct 2014 – Jun 2018 | Dendritic cell interactions with NK cells
25. D. Freidman | Oct 2014 – Jan 2019 | The importance of stiffness in NK cell activation
26. J. K. Tuomela | Oct 2017 – 2021 | Molecular recognition of radiotherapy-treated cancer cells by human Natural Killer cells
27. P. Simmonds | Oct 2017 – 2021 | Using super-resolution microscopy to study macrophage biology in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
28. S. Dechantsreiter | Oct 2017 – Oct 2021 | Using super-resolution microscopy to study human macrophage biology
29. A. Karampatzakis | Oct 2017 – Oct 2021 | Super-resolution microscopy of Fc receptors
30. I. Díaz Del Olmo | Oct 2017 – Oct 2021 | Mechanisms for secretion of IL-1
31. C. Patterson | Oct 2019 – Nov 2023 | Prostaglandin E₂ impacts multiple stages of the natural killer cell antitumor immune response
32. R. Hare | Oct 2019 – Sept 2023 | The mechanisms for TIGIT-mediated inhibition of NK cells
33. K. Jones | Oct 2020 – Feb 2024 | NK cell phenotypes in cancer survivors
34. O. Vivanco | Oct 2020 – Jan 2025 | Functions of supramolecular activation particles
35. C. Hosty | Oct 2021 – Oct 2025 | Mechanisms of a novel bispecific antibody
36. J. Gali Moya | Oct 2022 – June 2026 | Mechanisms for TIGIT and CD96
37. M. Cox | Oct 2023 – Present | Understanding Tandem CAR T cell Recognition
38. L. Russell | Oct 2024 – Present | Using super resolution microscopy to investigate the molecular parameters of T cell engagers
39. T. Studd | Oct 2024 – Present | Serial Killing by human Natural Killer cells
40. C. Yi | Oct 2025 – Present | Engineering the immune synapse for optimal CAR T cell production
41. S. Dragomir | Oct 2026 – Present | Novel microscopy for imaging synaptic distances