Dr Velislava Petrova

Postdoctoral Fellow

Alumni

This person is a member of Sanger Institute Alumni.

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow working in the field of immunogenetics. I use immune receptor sequencing to understand the evolution of antigen-specific responses to different antigens in infection, vaccination and autoimmunity.

My background is in the fields of immunology and infectious diseases. During my PhD, I worked on the development of methods for B-cell receptor sequencing, which I then applied in the context of virus infection and vaccination. My current postdoctoral work focuses on the investigation of antigen reactivity driving chronic inflammation in inflammatory bowel disease. In addition to my employment at the Wellcome Sanger Insitute, I am a Borysiewicz Fellow at the University of Cambridge. As part of this fellowship, I am working on a project inspired by one of the UN sustainable development goals which combines research and global health policy in the area of infectious diseases.

My timeline

• Awarded the Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellowship

• Started a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

• Completed a PhD at the Wellcome Sanger Institute/Univeristy of Cambridge

• Started the 4-Year Wellcome Trust PhD Programme at The Sanger Institute

• Completed a BSc in Virology and Immunology at the University of Bristol

• Completed a Placement Year at The Sanger Institute

• Awarded Industrial Placement Scholarship at Pfizer, R&D Sandwich

• Completed a summer placement at the Max Planck Institute, Göttingen