Jonathan Stoye | |
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Born | Jonathan Paul Stoye 1952 (age 72–73)[1] Oxford, England |
Education | Magdalen College School, Oxford |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA) University of Basel (PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Virology |
Institutions | Francis Crick Institute |
Thesis | Studies on cellular and genetic factors controlling endogenous retrovirus expression in lymphocytes (1981) |
Website | crick |
Jonathan Paul Stoye (born 1952)[1]FRS is avirologist at theFrancis Crick Institute inLondon,England. He has made substantial contributions to scientific understanding of the interactions ofretroviruses with theirhosts.[2]
Stoye was educated atMagdalen College School, Oxford andMagdalene College, Cambridge, where he was awarded aBachelor of Arts degree in 1973.[1] He was awarded aPhD from theUniversity of Basel in Switzerland in 1981 for studies on cellular and genetic factors controlling endogenousretrovirus expression inlymphocytes.[1][3]
Stoye has worked with thehuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV), other primate retroviruses,murine leukaemia viruses and retroviruses of pigs, goats, sheep and other animals. His recent publications describe investigations of host restriction factors such as Fv1,[citation needed]TRIM5alpha and other members of thetripartite motif family as well as the lentiviral accessory proteinsVpx andVpr.[4][5]
Stoye was elected aFellow of the Royal Society in 2017.[6][7]