Teaching and education
Our teaching and research training programmes for Clinical Microbiologists are grounded in our research practice and findings.
We contribute to the teaching offered by the Division of Infection and Immunity across undergraduate and postgraduate taught courses.
A major activity of our Centre is to provide academic support for continuing professional development for Health Care Scientists, Medical Trainees and partners in our global collaborations.
The Centre provides research training closely aligned with our research interests, providing projects for undergraduate and taught postgraduate students as well as supporting research degree candidates (PhD and MD(Res)).
Research Degrees at the Centre for Clinical Microbiology
2018/2019
Ms Eloise Busby
Title: Metrology and molecular diagnosis of infection
Supervisors: Professor Tim McHugh, Dr Jim Huggett (University of Surrey), Dr Emmanuel Wey
Ms Sylvia Rofael
Title: Airway microbiome in chronic lung disease
Supervisors: Professor Tim McHugh, Prof John Hurst, Professor Dave Spratt, Dr Marc Lipman
Ms Mercedes Lucas Mejia
Working title: Mycobacterial Biomarkers: MALDI-TOF MS for mycobacterial identification
Supervisors: Professor Tim McHugh, Dr Marc Lipman, Dr Jim Huggett (University of Surrey)
Ms Kerry Roulston
Working title: Improved detection and diagnostic strategies for multi-drug resistant Gram-negative bacteria in high risk patients.
Supervisors: Dr Susan Hopkins, Professor Tim McHugh
Dr Hanouf Niyazi
Title: Molecular phenotyping of the mycobacterial response to drug treatment
Supervisors: Professor Tim McHugh, Dr Marc Lipman
Dr Sara Murthy
Title: Tuberculosis: measuring outcomes in clinical trials
Supervisors: Professor Tim McHugh, Professor Stephen Gillespie (St Andrews)
Ms Zahra Sadouki
Working title: Integrating pharmacological modelling with conventional microbiology to improve predictions of drug efficacy and emergence of antimicrobial drug resistance
Supervisors: Professor Ibrahim Abubakar, Professor Tim McHugh, Dr Frank Kloprogge
Dr Giovanni Satta
Title: Meeting the challenge of drug resistant tuberculosis
Supervisors: Professor Tim McHugh and Dr Marc Lipman
Dr Conor Tweed
Title: Toxicity Related to the Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Supervisors: Professor Sarah Meredith, Professor Tim McHugh, Dr Marc Lipman
Awarded earlier
Dr Alice Marriott (2016)
Title: The influence of growth conditions on the susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to antibiotics
Supervisor: Dr Joanna Bacon, Professor Tim McHugh
Dr Laura Stoffels (2015)
Title: Microalgae as a novel production platform for antibacterial proteins
Supervisors: Dr Saul Purton (ISMB, primary), Dr Bambos Charalambous
Dr Jessica Mears (2015)
Title: Evaluation of the Tuberculosis Strain Typing Service in England
Supervisors: Professor Ibrahim Abubakar (UCL), Dr Pam Sonnenberg (UCL) and Professor Tim McHugh (UCL)
Dr Henry Taunt
Topic: Synthesis of novel antibacterial proteins in microalgae.
Supervisors: Dr Saul Purton (ISMB, primary), Dr Bambos Charalambous
Dr Marie Anne Chattaway (2014)
Title: A Novel Approach to Pathogen Recognition for Diarrhoeagenic Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli
Supervisors: Professor John Wain, Dr Clare Jenkins, Professor Tim McHugh
Dr Michael E Murphy (2015)
Title: Predicting the outcome of tuberculosis treatment
Supervisor: Professor Stephen H Gillespie (University of St Andrews), Dr Marc Lipman (RF NHS)
Project synopsis, publications and presentations
Dr Davinder Garcha (2015)
Title: Prevalence and Load of Airway Bacteria in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Supervisors: Professor Wisia Wedzicha, Professor Tim McHugh
Dr Marcus Leung
Title: Multiple colonization of Streptococcus pneumoniae as means of cell-to-cell communication and adaptive microevolution.
Supervisor: Dr Bambos Charalambous
Dr Ndekya Oriyo
Title: Longitudinal study on carriage, antibiotic resistance and prevalent serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae in a semi-isolated community in North-East Tanzania
Supervisor: Dr Bambos Charalambous
Second Supervisor: Professor Stephen H Gillespie (University of St Andrews)
Dr Robert Shorten (2011)
Title: The molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in north London.
Supervisor: Professor Tim McHugh
Dr Amani M Alnimr (2009)
Title: Microbiological assessment of novel anti-tuberculosis compounds
Supervisors: Professor Tim McHugh, Professor Stephen H Gillespie (University of St Andrews)
