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​STAFF & POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS

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Dr Freya Harrison (PI)
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Oluwatosin Orababa (PhD student)
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Jenny Littler (PhD Student)
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Phoebe Do Carmo Silva (PhD student)
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Dr Dean Walsh (post-doc)
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Dr Blessing Oyedemi (post-doc)
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Jessica Furner-Pardoe (PhD student)
LAB ALUMNI

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 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.
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UNDERGRADUATE, MSc & FIRST-YEAR PHD ROTATION PROJECTS

2021-22
  • Matt Pledge (Fourth-year MBio project): Comparing the growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Burkholderia ceocepacia 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
  • Third-year undergrad projects - systematic reviews of the antimicrobial efficacy of plants traditionally used to treat infections

​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
  • Third-year undergrad projects on the role of Aspergillus spp. in CF lung disease and the antimicrobial properties of stinging nettles.

2018-19
  • Callum Parsons, MSc(Research) project: Biological activity of a medieval ‘antibiotic’ preparation
  • Two third-year undergrad projects on Investigating the immunomodulatory effects of a medieval “antibiotic”
  • Warwick Undergraduate Research Support Scheme summer placement: Colonisation of an ex vivo lung infection model by Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  • Warwick Undergraduate Research Support Scheme summer placement: Ancientbiotics: investigating the biology behind historical treatments for infection

2017-18​
  • Two third-year undergrad projects on Why does antibiotic susceptibility testing fail?
  • Shajini Subhaskaran (Fourth-year MBio project) How does an "ancientbiotic" kill bacteria?
  • Ilyas Alav (Year 1 PhD rotation, Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership) Antibiotic resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms in an ex vivo lung model of cystic fibrosis ​
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2016-17
  • Navneet Jandu (Microbiology Society Harry Smith Vacation Project Student) Treating wound pathogens with “ancientbiotics” made from nettles
  • Jenny Littler (Third-year undergrad) Ancientbiotics? Testing historical treatments for infection
  • Shajini Subhaskaran (Third-year undergrad) 'Ancientbiotics’: discovering antibiotics in historical medical texts 



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