Antibiotic resistant pathogens research group team
Meet our team and collaborators
Bacterial pathogen research group
Bacterial pathogen research group:
Professor Mat Upton (Group Lead) – medical microbiology and antibiotic discovery
Dr Katie Sealey (Research Fellow) – bioinformatic vaccine design
to reduce antibiotic use in animals
Martha Nash (Research Associate) - ABX initiative administrator
Nizar Saeedi (PhD student) – host-pathogen interaction of uropathogenic
E coli
Rob O’Hara (PhD student) – epidemiology and genomics of
uropathogenic E coli
Abdu Aldarhami (PhD student) – discovery of novel bacteriocins
with clinical potential
Matthew Koch (PhD student) – mining deep sea sponges for novel
antibiotics
Poppy Best (PhD student with Dr Kerry Howell,
School of Biological and Marine Sciences) –
ecology and antimicrobial activity of marine sponge microbiota
James Butler (PhD student with Dr Alex Besinis, School of
Engineering) – antimicrobial surfaces for infection control in hospitals
Vicky Bennett (Placement student) – purification and
characterisation of novel antimicrobials
Lena Faller (Placement student) - purification and
characterisation of novel antimicrobials
University of Plymouth collaborators:
Dr Michael Jarvis, School of Biomedical Sciences
Professor Simon Jackson, School of Biomedical Sciences
Dr Gyuri Fejer, School of Biomedical Sciences
Dr Andy Foey, School of Biomedical Sciences
Dr Kerry Howell, School of Biological and Marine Sciences
External collaborators:
Dr Lewis Jones, Consultant Microbiologist, University of Plymouth
Hospitals NHS Trust
Dr Jonathan Cox, Aston University
Dr Ian Fotheringham, Ingenza Ltd, Edinburgh
Dr Max Ryadnov, National Physical Laboratory
Professor Mark Schembri, University of Queensland, Brisbane,
Australia
Dr Scott Beatson, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Interested in joining us?
We may have opportunities available for self-funded PhD students to join the team. If you would like to discuss the potential to work with the Antibiotic Resistant Pathogens Research group, please get in touch with Professor Mat Upton directly.