Core Members
Researchers based at OHRBID
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Lab Manager
Keeps our lab working well and looking ship shape!
Experienced in a range of molecular techniques
Has collaborated internationally in Tanzania and Germany
Pornpiroon (Ant) Chawsuanngam
PhD student
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Background in veterinary medicine
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Interests: Molecular biology, bacterial genomics, nephrology
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Research: Pathological mechanisms and urinary biomarkers of canine Ehrlichia-induced glomerulonephritis
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Favourite bacteria: Ehrlichia canis
Tianjiao Fang
PhD student
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Background in veterinary medicine and infectious disease
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Interests: AMR, aquaculture, molecular biology
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Research: Exploring factors shaping antimicrobial resistance in aquatic environments
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Favourite bacteria: Erysipelothrix, Coxiella
PhD student
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Background in veterinary medicine and infectious disease
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Interests: neglected zoonotic diseases, molecular epidemiology and mathematical modelling
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Research: Exploring the genetic diversity, antimicrobial resistance determinants and transmission dynamics of ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae in hospitals and communities from northern Tanzania
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Favourite bacteria: Escherichia coli, Salmonella enterica, Klebsiella pneumoniae
Senior Lecturer
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Interests: molecular epidemiology, aquaculture, AMR, wildlife disease
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Research: 'Next Generation Veterinarian', applying bacterial genomics approaches to address global health challenges
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Favourite bacteria: Erysipelothrix, Bacillus anthracis, ESBL Enterobacteriaceae, Group B Streptococcus
Senior Lecturer
Interests: epidemiology, surveillance and control of zoonotic pathogens
Research: investigating the health, productivity and ecological impacts of endemic bacterial zoonoses in Tanzania and in Scotland
Favourite bacteria: Brucella, Bartonella, Coxiella and Leptospira
Ines Machelle
PhD student
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Background: Veterinary Medicine, One Health Molecular Biology
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Interests: One Health, conservation health, emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases at the human-livestock-wildlife interface
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Research: Integrating one health approaches to enhance anthrax surveillance, vaccine interventions, and model vaccine efficacy at the human-livestock-wildlife interface in Tanzania
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Favourite bacterium: Bacillus anthracis
Lecturer
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Interests: microbial ecology, One Health microbiology, AMR, microscopy, physics of life
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Research: investigating how bacteria come together to form communities of different shape, form and function
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Favourite bacteria: Might as well ask me to pick a favourite parent!
PhD student
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Veterinarian interested in investigating risk posed by ruminant-associated Coxiella burnetii to livestock and human health in Great Britain
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Interests: Infectious diseases, Public Health, Zoonotic diseases, Epidemiology, Surveillance
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Favourite bacteria: Coxiella, Mycobacterium, Brucella and Salmonella
Alan Mollins
PhD student (Strathclyde / Glasgow)
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Background in biomedical engineering with industry experience in translational science. Now researching the development of organic bioelectronics for rapid AMR testing.
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Interests: AMR, biosensing, optical sensing and imaging, point of care diagnostics, global health
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Favourite bacteria: Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Lab Technician
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Providing support and help across the lab
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Background in molecular and immunological techniques
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Interests: disease pathology, immune-mediated diseases, public health
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Favourite bacteria: Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Shareef Ngunguni
PhD student
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Background: Veterinary medicine and health sciences
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Research: Development of veterinary antibiogram and comparative genomic analysis of E. coli across one health interface in Malawi
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Interests: AMR and infectious disease epidemiology, Bacterial genomics, One Health
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Favourite bacteria: Enterobacteriaceae and Staphylococcus
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PhD student
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Research: Exploring how climate change affects bacterial virulence, resistance, and persistence in agricultural settings.
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Interests: AMR, microbial ecology, infectious disease
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Favourite bacteria: Escherichia coli, Salmonella spp., Yersinia pestis
Lecturer
Interests: bacterial genomics, AMR and infectious diseases
Research: Microbiologist, studying the transmission of human and animal pathogens and AMR in hospital and community settings
Favourite bacteria: Enterobacteriaceae, Group A Streptococcus, Mycoplasma, human and bovine tuberculosis
Lecturer
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Interests: One Health microbiology, AMR, aquaculture, infectious disease, evolution
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Research: Investigating how veterinary, clinical and environmental bacterial pathogens can persist in the environment, and how environmental factors may drive their evolution towards the emergence of variants with enhanced pathogenicity
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Favourite bacteria: Yersinia ruckeri, E. coli, Salmonella spp., Vibrio cholerae
Ny Aina Tiana Rakotoarisoa
PhD student
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Background: Veterinary medicine and conservation
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Research: Antimicrobial resistance in humans, livestock and wildlife in Madagascar, Africa
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Interests: Global health, GIS for public health, Neglected tropical diseases, women empowerment in STEM fields
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Favourite bacteria: Staphylococcus
Luyuan Zhao
PhD student
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Background: Veterinary medicine and infectious disease epidemiology
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Research: Investigating the transmission dynamics and potential sources of antimicrobial resistance in aquaculture and surrounding environments in Thailand, using bacterial genomics and mathematical modelling to understand transmission pathways and inform targeted interventions.
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Interests: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), One Health, Genomic epidemiology, Computational biology
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Favourite bacteria: Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Campylobacter jejuni and Salmonella enterica