Team Members
Our current and former lab members.
Current Lab Members
Prof Lindsay Hall - Group LeaderSpecialising in understanding the multi-faceted role of the early life microbiota, with the goal of developing therapies to improve human and animal health.
Dr Raymond Kiu - Research FellowInvestigating the role of Clostridium perfringens in pre-term intestinal infection using both computational and experimental approaches
Dr Matthew Dalby - Research FellowMy current project involves computational analysis of the results of a trial investigating how a Bifidobacterium probiotic can shape the developing infant gut microbiota in premature babies.
Dr Magdalena Kujawska - Research FellowInvestigating diet as an evolutionary driver in the microbiota genus Bifidobacterium using genomics and experimental approaches.
Dr Iliana Serghiou - Research ScientistStudying the development and evolution of the human infant skin microbiome
Dr Luke Acton - Research FellowInvestigating a novel iron transporter in early-life gut microbiota
Dr Hannah Trivett - Research FellowExploring microbiome datasets to understand microbe-microbe interactions and their impact on human health using experimental and bioinformatic approaches
Charlotte Jones - Research AssociateMy project looks at how Bifidobacterium may modulate immune response in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases.
Leon Mijic - PhD StudentInvestigating the effects of beneficial and pathogenic microbiota in the infant microbiome
Dodzi Kwaku Junior Senoo - PhD StudentExploring the Ying and Yang of the Early life Microbiota
Chujun Zhang - PhD StudentMy project focuses on integrative multi-omics analyses of early life gut microbiome–host interactions, aiming to understand how microbial composition and function influence host development and disease risk in infants.
Isabelle Gittings - Placement StudentMy project will be looking to identify specific bacteriophages for Stapholococcus Haemolyticus.
Former Lab Members
Sarah Phillips - Research ScientistMy current projects look at how gut microbes contribute to maintaining health during pregnancy and early life; and also in healthy ageing.
Anne Jordan - PhD StudentMy project will look at how the early life microbiota modulates vaccine responses
Antia Acuna-Gonzalez - Research ScientistUnderstanding antibiotic resistance in early life microbiota
Dr Elizabeth Darby - Research FellowMy project focuses on understanding how members of the gut microbiome may increase or decrease inflammatory immune responses
Dr David Seki - Post Doctoral ScientistDeciphering Bifidobacterium-diet-immune interactions in global infant populations
Dr Christian Zenner - Post Doctoral ScientistDeciphering the composition of gut microbiota of humans and animals through sequencing and cultivation approaches, and investigating how microbiota members can promote immune functions in different hosts.
Nancy Teng - PhD StudentMy project will look at the gut microbiota and breast cancer.
Hassan Saeed - PhD StudentDeciphering the infant’s gut microbiome in search for emerging untouched multi-drug resistant pathogens in different geographical regions
Thomas Atkinson - Microbiome TechnicianMy current projects look at gut microbes during pregnancy and early life (PEARL), and in healthy ageing (MOTION).
Bastian-Alexander Truppel - Microbiome TechnicianProviding laboratory support for the Chair with a focus on understanding host-microbe crosstalk
Dr Diana Papp - Post Doctoral ScientistDeveloping tools to understand how Bifidobacteria promotes gut health
Dr Gowrinadh Javvadi - Post Doctoral ScientistInvestigating and functionally characterising key gut microbiome metabolites involved in host-microbe cross talk.
Peter Smith - Project ScientistMy current role involves helping to run two clinical studies; PEARL and MOTION. Both studies are looking at the effect the microbiome has on the health of different groups of people.
Dr Cristina Alcon - PhD StudentImpact of antibiotics on the preterm gut microbiota.
Shabhonam Caim - BioinformaticianAs a computational scientist, I try to understand the complexity of genomes using computational algorithms.
Dr Zoe Schofield - Post Doctoral ScientistInvestigating microbe-host interactions in utero.
Holly Acford-Palmer - Project ScientistI now work as a Project Scientist in the Hall lab group looking at the effect of probiotics on the microbiota of premature neonates.
Dr Ian O’Neill - Post Doctoral ScientistStudying the impact of specific bifidobacterial components on inflammatory immune responses.
Dr Melissa Lawson - Research FellowExploring the impact of infant milk diet on microbiota development, with the intention of developing an enhanced infant formula.
Dr Cho Zin Soe - Post Doctoral ScientistExploring the iron uptake mechanisms in Bifidobacterium in the context of colonisation resistance against enteric pathogens.
Deborah Pungel - MSc StudentIn my project I will examine how the presence of Bifidobacterium breve exopolysaccharide (EPS) modulates changes in the microbiota in early life.
- Thomas Brook - Visiting PhD Student
Isolating Klebsiella strains and bacteriophages from gut samples of premature babies.
Charlotte Leclaire - Project ScientistInvestigating the early life microbiota in preterm infants, and exploring new desirable traits of potentially probiotic strains of Bifidobacteria.
Lisa Chalklen - Project ScientistLinking premature infant bacterial and immune profiles with the development of early life enteric infections and investigating diagnostic markers.
Shannah Donhou - PhD StudentInvestigating the impact of the early life microbiota on vaccination responses
Dr Lukas Harnisch - PhD StudentInvestigating the effect of Bifidobacterium on the host intestine in health and disease through an integrated ‘omics and experimental approach.
- Helena Adjei - MSc Student
Probing immune and metabolite molecules as diagnostic markers for development of pre-term infant inflammatory disorders.
- Dr Suparna Mitra - Senior Bioinformatician
Bioinformatics and statistical analysis of clinical microbiome studies.
- Dr Christopher Wright - Technician
DNA and protein extraction from in vivo and infant samples.
- Jennifer Ketskemety - Technician
Isolating novel Bifidobacterium strains and coordinating BAMBI study.
