Dr Dean Walsh (Monash-Warwick Alliance Postdoctoral Fellow) moved to UKHSA as part of the NHS Clinical Scientist Training Programme in 2024. Dr Manuela Marai (PhD student and then IAS Fellow) passed her viva in 2024. Dr Jenny Littler (PhD student) passed her viva in 2023 and moved to a role as Senior Scientist at Warwick's NEQAS-accredited Antimicrobial Screening Facility. She tweets here. Dr Blessing Oydemi (post-doc) left the lab in 2022. Dr Jessica Furner-Pardoe (PhD student) passed her viva in 2022 and moved to a post at the UK Health Security Agency. She tweets here. Dr Ramón Garcia Maset (PhD student) passed his viva in 2022 and moved to a post-doc at UCL. He tweets here. Dr Niamh Harrington (PhD student) passed her viva in 2022 and moved to a post-doc at the University of Liverpool. She tweets here. Dr Holly Shropshire (research assistant) joined us to lead an antimicrobial screening project for an industrial partner, before moving to a post-doc at Warwick. Dr John Lapage (post-doc) left to become a Bioscience Lead fighting COVID-19 at the Rosalind Franklin Megalab. He tweets here. Dr Esther Sweeney (research technician) left for a research manager post at the University of Southampton. She tweets here. Dr Blessing Anonye (post-doc) left for a lectureship at the University of Central Lancashire. She tweets here. Dr Marwa Hassan (post-doc) left for a post-doc position at the University of Surrey. She tweets here. SHORT RESEARCH PROJECTS: MBio, MSc, first-year PhD rotation and undergraduate summer summer students.
2023-24
Alex Gale(Fourth-year MBio project): Chronic wound bacteria have slow evolution of resistance to a medieval remedy and its derived synthetic cocktail.
Kat Knight (Fourth-year MBio project): Investigating the characteristics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa lab and clinical strains grown in host-mimicking media: a focus on cystic fibrosis and ventilator-associated pneumonia biofilm infections.
2022-23
Nicole Gilardi-Scopa (Fourth-year MBio project): Investigating Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a novel ventilator-associated pneumonia model.
Joni MacDonald (Fourth-year MBio project): Investigating Candida albicans in a novel ventilator associated-pneumonia model.
2021-22
Matt Pledge (Fourth-year MBio project): Comparing the growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa andBurkholderia cenocepacia in models of cystic fibrosis lung infection and ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Puney Jain (Fourth-year MBio project): The evolution of antibiotic resistance in different laboratory media and infection models.
Anisa Blower (Fourth-year MBio project): The uses of honey and vinegar as 'ancientbiotics'
2020-21
Freya Allen (Fourth-year MBio project): Pseudomonas aeruginosa gene expression over time in an ex vivo model of cystic fibrosis
Robynn Wiszniewska (Fourth-year MBio project): The effect of environment on bacterial susceptibility to antibiotics.
2019-20
Philip Hewlett (Fourth-year MBio project): Streptococcus pneumoniae lung infections
Branagh Crealock-Ashurst (elective research placement during post-grad medicine degree): Assessing acute and chronic Staphylococcus aureus virulence and persistence within cystic fibrosis using an ex vivo lung infection model
2018-19
Callum Parsons, MSc(Research) project: Biological activity of a medieval ‘antibiotic’ preparation