Marta Matuszewska

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Fitzwilliam College
  • Assistant Research Professor in Evolutionary Pathogen Genomics
  • Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow
Available to supervise doctoral students
Available for consultancy
Marta Matuszewska

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I study the evolution, transmission and antimicrobial resistance of bacterial pathogens, with a particular focus on Staphylococcus aureus. My work combines population genomics, comparative genomics and epidemiological metadata to investigate host adaptation, mobile genetic elements, antimicrobial resistance and One Health transmission dynamics across humans, animals and environments.

Assistant Research Professor in Evolutionary Pathogen Genomics
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow

Bacterial evolution, antimicrobial resistance and One Health pathogen genomics.

My research focuses on the evolutionary genomics of bacterial pathogens, with a particular emphasis on Staphylococcus aureus. I use population genomics, comparative genomics and epidemiological metadata to investigate host adaptation, transmission, antimicrobial resistance and the role of mobile genetic elements in pathogen evolution.

I am particularly interested in how bacterial lineages move between humans, animals and environments, and how genomic data can be used to understand One Health transmission dynamics, antimicrobial resistance risk and the ecological context of bacterial adaptation.

Research

Research interests

  • Molecular epidemiology
  • MRSA
  • Onehealth
  • Pathogen evolution
  • Public Health
  • Sequencing
  • Staphylococcus aureus

Evolutionary microbiology; pathogen genomics; Staphylococcus aureus population genomics; antimicrobial resistance; mobile genetic elements; host adaptation; host switching; One Health; comparative genomics; genomic epidemiology.

I welcome enquiries from students interested in bacterial evolution, pathogen genomics, antimicrobial resistance, mobile genetic elements, One Health microbiology and Staphylococcus aureus population genomics. Potential projects may involve comparative genomics, phylogenetics, large-scale public genome datasets, epidemiological metadata integration and questions around host adaptation or transmission.

Teaching and supervision

Available to supervise doctoral students

Collaborators

  1. Anastazja Tasinkiewicz

    Anastazja Tasinkiewicz

    • PhD Student, affiliated to Dept Veterinary Medicine
  2. Dr Ashraf Zarkan

    Dr Ashraf Zarkan

    • Research Fellow, Department of Genetics
  3. Dr Charlotte Hammer

    Dr Charlotte Hammer

    • Everitt Butterfield Fellow in Emerging Infectious Diseases
  4. Dr Chris Ruis

    Dr Chris Ruis

    • Research Associate, Department of Medicine
  5. Dr David Summers

    Dr David Summers

  6. Dr Ewan Harrison

    Dr Ewan Harrison

    • Head of the Respiratory Virus and Microbiome Initiative (RVI) and Group Leader, Parasites and Microbes Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK
  7. Dr Gemma Murray

    Dr Gemma Murray

    • Group Leader in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, UCL
  8. Dr Lucy Weinert

    Dr Lucy Weinert

    • Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Henry Dale Fellow
  9. Dr Xiaoliang Ba

    Dr Xiaoliang Ba

    • Department of Veterinary Medicine
  10. Małgorzata Kopeć

    Małgorzata Kopeć

    • PhD Student, affiliated to Dept of Medicine
  11. Pok-Man Ho

    Pok-Man Ho

    • PhD student in Epidemiological and Mathematical Modelling
  12. Professor Julian Parkhill

    Professor Julian Parkhill

    • Marks & Spencer Professor of Farm Animal Health, Food Science and Food Safety, Department of Veterinary Medicine
  13. Professor Mark Holmes

    Professor Mark Holmes

    • Professor in Microbial Genomics & Veterinary Science
  14. Professor Sharon Peacock

    Professor Sharon Peacock

    • Director, COVID-19 genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK) and Professor of Public Health & Microbiology
  15. Susannah Salter

    Susannah Salter

    • Research Assistant, Department of Veterinary Medicine.