Mr Dom Wooding

Biography

Dom Wooding is a Research Assistant currently working in Professor Christine Goffinet’s team within the Tropical Disease Biology department. His research focuses on virus-host interactions, with a particular interest in emerging infectious diseases. Current projects include work on Oropouche virus, Chikungunya virus and Mpox virus.

Research interests

Dom’s research focuses mainly on virus-host interactions in a number of different emerging infectious diseases. Projects include:

DEFENDER – an EU funded project which is a collaboration between 12 partner sites. Our arm of the study is investigating Chikungunya virus (CHIKV)-host interactions by high-throughput screening of genes using fluorescence microscopy as a readout.

Deciphering modes of inhibition of Oropouche virus (OROV) entry using a lentiviral pseudotype-based system to test the capability of neutralising and blocking agents to inhibit OROV entry.

Investigating the role of peripheral immune cells in mpox virus pathogenesis.

Selected research publications

Syndromic Diagnostics for Travelers’ Diarrhea Near-Patient Field-Expedient Testing in Resource-Limited Settings – Journal: Open Forum Infectious Diseases – Published: 17th February 2026

Multiplex PCR to Differentiate Monkeypox Virus Clades – Journal: Emerging Infectious Diseases – Published: 1st February 2026

Comparison of the analytical and clinical sensitivities of 34 rapid antigen tests with prevalent SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK – Journal: Microbiology spectrum – Published: 7th October 2025

Diagnostic Accuracy of 3 Mpox Lateral Flow Assays for Antigen Detection, Democratic Republic of the Congo and United Kingdom – Journal: Emerging Infectious Diseases – Published: 2nd May 2025

Evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of Xpert® Mpox and STANDARD™ M10 MPX/OPX for the detection of monkeypox virus – Journal: Journal of Infection – Published: 14th January 2025

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