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Margaret Hosie
Viral pathogenesis and vaccine development, with a major focus on feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) as a model immunodeficiency-causing lentivirus.
Development of immunological reagents to study feline immune responses.
Development of novel immunological and virological approaches to the diagnosis of veterinary viral infections utilising retroviral pseudotypes bearing envelope glycoproteins from feline lentiviruses, feline leukaemia virus, canine distemper virus, Rift Valley fever virus and lyssaviruses.
European Reference Laboratory for feline calicivirus (FCV), a project funded by Merial to screen FCV isolates from UK, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and Spain for susceptibility to cross neutralisation by antisera raised against current FCV vaccine strains.