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Heather Allison

Professor Heather Allison
B.A., B.Sc., Ph.D., FHEA

Professor of Molecular Microbiology, IVES Institute Director of Post Graduate Research
Clinical Infection, Microbiology & Immunology

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)