Pat Nuttall

About

Trained as a virologist. Then became interested in viruses transmitted by ticks. Discovered that viruses can be transmitted from infected to uninfected ticks feeding on the same animal (though physically separated) in the absence of virus in the blood of the animal (non-viraemic transmission). Went on to show that tick saliva promoted non-viraemic transmission and got interested in tick salivary gland products. Became involved in translational research, developing tick saliva proteins and peptides as novel drugs and vaccines. Founding scientist of two spin-out companies. Became Director of the Institute of Virology & Environmental Microbiology, Oxford, and then Director of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), both owned by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Completed a successful £50m re-structuring of CEH. Short role as NERC Director on the integration of all NERC's research centres. Returned to academia in 2013 as Professor of Arbovirology, University of Oxford.

Employment

• University of Oxford Emeritus Professor
  2017 - Present
• University of Oxford Professor of Arbovirology
  2013 - 2017
• Natural Environment Research Council Director National Capability Integration/Special Projects
  2011 - 2013
• Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Director
  2001 - 2011
• Institute of Virology & Environmental Microbiology Director
  1995 - 2001
• Institute of Virology & Environmental Microbiology Research scientist
  1980 - 1995
• University of Oxford Post-doctoral research assistant
  1977 - 1980
• Institute of Animal Health Postgraduate student
  1974 - 1977

Education

• University of Oxford MA
  1995 - Present
• University of Reading PhD
  ? - 1978
• University of Bristol BSc (Hons) Microbiology
  ? - 1974

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (196)

• Climate change impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections
  Biologia 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s11756-021-00927-2
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• Structural basis of cholesterol binding by a novel clade of dendritic cell modulators from ticks
  Scientific Reports 2017 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-16413-2
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• Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia miyamotoi in questing Ixodes ricinus ticks from four sites in the UK.
  Ticks and tick-borne diseases 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2017.09.007
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• The role of ticks in the maintenance and transmission of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus: A review of published field and laboratory studies
  Antiviral Research 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2017.05.010
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• Avathrin: a novel thrombin inhibitor derived from a multicopy precursor in the salivary glands of the ixodid tick, Amblyomma variegatum.
  The FASEB Journal 2017 DOI: 10.1096/fj.201601216r
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• Tick-Borne Viruses and Biological Processes at the Tick-Host-Virus Interface.
  Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology 2017 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2017.00339
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• Substrate prediction of Ixodes ricinus salivary lipocalins differentially expressed during Borrelia afzelii infection.
  Scientific Reports 2016 DOI: 10.1038/srep32372
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• Vasoconstriction induced by salivary gland extracts from ixodid ticks.
  International journal for parasitology 2015 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2015.08.006
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• The global distribution of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever.
  Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2015 DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/trv050
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• Abiotic predictors and annual seasonal dynamics of Ixodes ricinus, the major disease vector of Central Europe.
  Parasites & vectors 2015 DOI: 10.1186/s13071-015-1092-y
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