People

Dr Mat Beale

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Parasites and Microbes Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute
• Molecular Microbiology, Bioinformatics, Phylogenetics, Phylodynamics, Molecular/Genomic Epidemiology, Genomic Surveillance. Sexually Transmitted Infections, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Global Health.

Sophia Belkhir

• PhD Student, Transmissible Cancer Group, Department Veterinary Medicine

Katherine Bellis

• Research Assistant, Clinical School
• I work on elucidating the basis of S. aureus carriage in the human nasopharynx.

Professor Stephen Bentley

• Wellcome Sanger Institute
• Genomics of bacterial pathogenesis with a particular focus on pneumonia and meningitis

Dr Gherard Batisti Biffignandi

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Baker Lab, Department of Genetics
• What I do: Analysis of AMR emergence in Shigella population through genomics and statistical modelling
• Research Interests: Genomic epidemiology and evolution of pathogens. Statistical modeling, software development for outbreak reconstruction.

Dr Paul Birrell

• Senior Statistician in the Statistics, Modelling, and Economics Department in the National Infection Service of Public Health England.
• Development of real-time systems for the tracking of pandemic influenza outbreaks.
• Visiting worker at Prog De Angelis' group.

Dr Laura Blackburn

• Head of Science, PHG Foundation

Dr Barbara Blacklaws

• Department of Veterinary Medicine
• Senior Lecturer in Molecular Virology
• Immune response to persistent viral infections; pathogenesis of gastrointestinal viruses.

Dr Andrew Blagborough

• Department of Pathology
• Characterization of malarial transmission and the design of anti-parasitic transmission-blocking interventions

Joshua Blake

• PhD Student at MRC Biostatistics Unit – Theme: Statistical methods Using data Resources to improve Population Health (SURPH)

Professor Sir Tom Blundell

• Department of Biochemistry
• Structural biology, bioinformatics and drug discovery

Tom Blundell

Dr Michael Boemo

• Assistant Professor of AI and Disease, Department of Pathology and Department of Genetics
• We use computational genomics, AI, and mathematical modelling to study the impact of antimalarial agents on the DNA replication and repair of malaria parasites.

Dr Roisin Boggan

• Research Associate, Department of Medicine
• Human genetic factors contributing to the persistent carriage of Staphylococcus aureus

Greicy Kelly Bonifacio Pereira

• PhD Student at the Department of Biochemistry
• Biofilm regulation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa