Jessica Blair

Dr.

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The use of antibiotics underpins all of modern medicine but infections are becoming harder to treat because bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to the antibiotics we currently have. Jessica Blair's research is focused on understanding how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics with a particular interest in the role of efflux pumps. These are proteins in the bacterial cell membrane that are able to pump molecules (including antibiotics) out of the cell which allows bacteria to survive antibiotic treatment. Dr Blair's research aims to better understand the role of these efflux pumps in antibiotic resistance of clinically relevant pathogens and also to investigate the possibility of inhibiting these efflux pumps to combat antibiotic resistance.

20092024

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Alan McNally

  • Microbiology and Infection - Professor of Microbial Evolutionary Genomics, Institute Director in the Institute of Microbiology and Infection

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Zoe Pikramenou

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Simon Legood

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Tim Overton, FRSB, FHEA

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Michelle Buckner

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Adam Cunningham

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Barbara Clough

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Doug Browning

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Steve Busby

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Eva Frickel

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Damon Huber

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Jack Bryant

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Damien Walmsley

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Edward Pelan

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Amanda Rossiter

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Sarah Kuehne

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Nikolas Hodges

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Richard Moakes

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Willem van Schaik

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Mark A Webber

  • University of East Anglia
  • Quadram Institute Bioscience

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Eleftheria Trampari

  • Norwich Research Park

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James Hudson

  • University of California

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Emily Wood

  • University of Exeter

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Jonathan Iredell

  • University of Sydney

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Emily F. Smith

  • University of Nottingham

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Dominic Catlow

  • University of Birmingham

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Emma Holden

  • Quadram Institute Bioscience

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Jessica L Teeling

  • University of Southampton

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Matthew Wand

  • Public Health England

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Matthew E Wand

  • UK Health Security Agency

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Matthew Davies

  • University of Birmingham

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Roberto M La Ragione

  • Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

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Robert Beardmore

  • University of Exeter

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Sebastian L Johnston

  • Imperial College London

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Ivana Gudelj

  • University of Exeter

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J Mark Sutton

  • Public Health England

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Klaas M. Pos

  • Goethe University

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Calman A MacLennan

  • GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health
  • University of Oxford

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John R. King

  • University of Nottingham

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vasiliy Bavro

  • University of Essex

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Robert A Kingsley

  • The Institute of Food Research; Norwich Research Park; Norwich UK
  • Quadram Institute Bioscience
  • University of East Anglia

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Pablo Catalan

  • University of Exeter

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