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Microbiology

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In collaboration with other biological science faculties, our research areas are: 

  • environmental agri-food and clinical settings of physiology 
  • antimicrobial resistance 
  • development 
  • evolution 
  • genetics
  • molecular ecology of biofilms
  • microbiome communities
  • infectious prions

 
We have recently led a successful bid by 4 leading Russell Group research institutions and a wider partnership of 14 collaborating institutions across the UK for the new National Innovation Biofilm Centre funded by: 

  • the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) 
  • Innovate UK  
  • partnering companies

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People

Doctor Catherine Bryant

Senior Research Assistant

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Email: c.a.bryant@soton.ac.uk

Address: B85, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Professor Charles Keevil

Professor In Environmental Health Care

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Email: c.w.keevil@soton.ac.uk

Address: B85, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

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Mr Dan Noel

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Doctor Daniel Kaganovich

Associate Professor of Neurobiology

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Doctor Franklin Nobrega BSc, MSc, PhD

Lecturer in Microbiology

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Email: f.nobrega@soton.ac.uk

Address: B85, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

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Professor Jeremy Webb

Professor of Microbiology

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Email: j.s.webb@soton.ac.uk

Address: B85, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

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Doctor Marc Dumont

Lecturer in Environmental Microbiology

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Email: m.g.dumont@soton.ac.uk

Address: B85, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

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Doctor Rodolphe Herve

Senior Research Fellow

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Email: r.herve@soton.ac.uk

Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, SO16 6YD (View in Google Maps)

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Doctor Sandra Wilks

Associate Professor

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Email: s.a.wilks@soton.ac.uk

Address: B85, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

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My research group aims to understand how biofilms develop and disperse and how they respond to environmental stresses including therapeutic compounds.
Professor Jeremy Webb
Professor of Microbiology
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