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David Matthews

University of the West of England

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:phylogenetics / evolution· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Organism:virus· 2 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 2 Approach:comparative / phylogenetic analysis· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1

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Abayomi S Olabode

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A transition to a more efficient attentional strategy facilitates motor learning in the presence and absence of movement-evoked experimental pain. A cross-sectional experimental study.

David Matthews, Ali Khatibi, Deborah Falla

This study examines how movement-contingent pain affects motor learning and attentional allocation, finding similar performance improvements across groups despite pain presence.

bioRxiv · Jun 8, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Virus genomes reveal the factors that spread and sustained the West African Ebola epidemic.

Gytis Dudas, Luiz Max Carvalho, Trevor Bedford, Andrew J Tatem, Guy Baele, Nuno Faria, Daniel Park, Jason Ladner, Armando Arias, Danny Asogun, Filip Bielejec, Sarah Caddy, Matt Cotten, Jonathan Dambrozio, Simon Dellicour, , Georgios

This study analyzes 1600 Ebola virus genomes to show viral spread followed a gravity model, with cross-border transmission before border closures contributing to an international epidemic.

Nature · Apr 12, 2017Peer-reviewedEpidemiology

Identification of important amino acid replacements in the 2013-2016 Ebola virus outbreak

Abayomi S Olabode, Derek Gatherer, Xiaowei Jiang, David Matthews, Julian A Hiscox, Stephan Gunther, Miles W Carroll, Simon C Lovell, David L Robertson

The paper analyzes amino acid replacements in the 2013-2016 Ebola virus outbreak, identifying one significant mutation that may affect host specificity and adaptation to humans.

bioRxiv · Sep 14, 2016 · PreprintMicrobiology

Allosteric inhibition of Aurora-A kinase by a synthetic VNAR nanobody

Selena G Burgess, Arkadiusz Oleksy, Tommaso Cavazza, Mark W Richards, Isabelle Vernos, David Matthews, Richard Bayliss

This paper describes the development of an allosteric inhibitor for Aurora-A kinase using a synthetic VNAR nanobody, showing it stabilizes an inactive conformation distinct from the activator TPX2.

Open Biology · Jul 1, 2016Peer-reviewedBiochemistry