Professional Activities
Conference Roles
- The impact of Stx prophage carriage on its host, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Evergreen Conference, 2011)
- Stx phage mosaicism: lessons learned from genome sequencing , by Invitation (Pasteur Institute, 2010)
- Stx phages & virulence gene dissemination , by Invitation (EuroSciCon Conference, 2010)
- Invited speaker at Shanghai Jiaotong University, by Invitation (Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2008)
- SGM 2008 (April) symposium on Horizontal Gene TRansfer: the Mobilome and Virulence, by Invitation (Society for General Microbiology, 2008)
- EuroSciCon conference on Bacteriophage Applications, by Invitation (EuroSciCon, 2006)
- Talk on Biology of Bacteriophages, by Invitation (SGM, 2005)
Editorships
- Bacteriophage (Editorial Board Member, 2010 - present)
Examination Roles
- Universitat de Barcelona, PhD (2011)
- University of Edinburgh, PhD (2011)
- University of Cambridge, PhD (2009)
- University of Oslo (Norway), PhD (2008)
- University of Leicester, MRes (PGT, 2009)
- University of Leicester, PhD (2009)
- Universitat de Barcelona, PhD (2007)
Organisations I have been associated with
- BiSN Technologies (2013 - present)
- NW Microbiology Meeting (2010 - present)
- Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition (division of Mar, Inc.) (2009 - 2014)
- SGM Microbiology Day for high school teachers in the NW. (2009 - present)
- Pinfold Primary School in conjunction with Rolls Royce
Professional Body Memberships
- Society for General Microbiology (Member)
- American Society for Microbiology (Member)
- Society for Applied Microbiology (Member, 2009 - present)
- NERC Peer Review College (Review Panel Member, 2008 - 2012)