Dr Amy Buck

Amy Buck earned her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she studied RNA-protein dynamics in the RNase P ribozyme in the lab of Prof. Norman Pace. Wanting to apply her RNA background to the field of virology, she joined the Division of Pathway Medicine and the Centre for Infectious Diseases at the University of Edinburgh in 2005. She worked for 1.5 years as postdoctoral researcher to develop nucleic acid biosensors while securing an Incoming Marie Curie Fellowship to focus on the biology and functions of microRNAs in viral infection. In 2009, she was awarded a BBSRC New Investigator award and an Advanced Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh to build her research group within the Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution. In 2012 was awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship to investigate small RNA regulation in viral infection and to develop a new line of research in RNA secretion in helminth models.