Team Members
Our current and former lab members.
Current Lab Members
Dr 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 - Post Doctoral ScientistInvestigating the role of Clostridium perfringens in pre-term intestinal infection using both computational and experimental approaches
Dr Matthew Dalby - Post Doctoral ScientistMy 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 Gowrinadh Javvadi - Post Doctoral ScientistInvestigating and functionally characterising key gut microbiome metabolites involved in host-microbe cross talk.
Dr Diana Papp - Post Doctoral ScientistDeveloping tools to understand how Bifidobacteria promotes gut health
Magdalena Kujawska - PhD StudentInvestigating diet as an evolutionary driver in the microbiota genus Bifidobacterium using genomics and experimental approaches.
Nancy Teng - PhD StudentMy project will look at the gut microbiota and breast cancer.
Anne Jordan - PhD StudentMy project will look at how the early life microbiota modulates vaccine responses
Sarah Phillips - Research ScientistCharacterising the preterm microbiota, and the effects of probiotics in restoring “normal” microbiota development over time.
Former Lab Members
Dr Cristina Alcon - PhD StudentImpact of antibiotics on the preterm gut microbiota.
Iliana Serghiou - Project ScientistDevelopment of microbial therapies - Live Biotherapeutics
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 Zoe Schofield - Post Doctoral ScientistInvestigating microbe-host interactions in utero.
Shabhonam Caim - BioinformaticianAs a computational scientist, I try to understand the complexity of genomes using computational algorithms.
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.
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.
Dr Cho Zin Soe - Post Doctoral ScientistExploring the iron uptake mechanisms in Bifidobacterium in the context of colonisation resistance against enteric pathogens.
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.
Shannah Donhou - PhD StudentInvestigating the impact of the early life microbiota on vaccination responses
Lisa Chalklen - Project ScientistLinking premature infant bacterial and immune profiles with the development of early life enteric infections and investigating diagnostic markers.
Dr Lukas Harnisch - PhD StudentInvestigating the effect of Bifidobacterium on the host intestine in health and disease through an integrated ‘omics and experimental approach.
Charlotte Leclaire - Project ScientistInvestigating the early life microbiota in preterm infants, and exploring new desirable traits of potentially probiotic strains of Bifidobacteria.
- Dr Suparna Mitra - Senior Bioinformatician
Bioinformatics and statistical analysis of clinical microbiome studies.
- Thomas Brook - Visiting PhD Student
Isolating Klebsiella strains and bacteriophages from gut samples of premature babies.
- Helena Adjei - MSc Student
Probing immune and metabolite molecules as diagnostic markers for development of pre-term infant inflammatory disorders.
- Jennifer Ketskemety - Technician
Isolating novel Bifidobacterium strains and coordinating BAMBI study.
- Dr Christopher Wright - Technician
DNA and protein extraction from in vivo and infant samples.
