I am a microbial bioinformatician and epidemiologist who has mostly worked with microbial sequence data originating from individuals in a primary care setting (the community). I have experience of working with human saliva and stool samples for the extraction of microbes to identify bacterial biomarkers of susceptibility to respiratory infection.

I have also written systematic review papers including meta-analyses.  I have considerable molecular biology experience in clinical infectious diseases and environmental microbiology. I am interested in antimicrobial resistance topics. 

Research Interests:

1. Antimicrobial resistance
2. Microbial analysis
3. Resistome
4. Biomarkers of disease susceptibility
5. Urinary tract infection
6. Respiratory tract infection
7. Airborne microbes

Current Research Projects:

• Bacterial analysis of gut and urine microbes from adults with recurrent urinary tract infections.
• Impact of policy change on antibiotic prescriptions and bacterial resistance for urinary tract infections and pyelonephritis.
• Airborne microbes in care homes.
• Respiratory tract infection susceptibility in individuals from the community.