Antibiotic consumption and misuse

• Professor Alison Holmes: AMR epidemiology, public health, precision medicine, emerging technologies, antibiotic optimisation
• Professor Darius Armstrong-James: Usage in respiratory fungal disease and leading antifungal stewardship initiatives  
• Dr Gabriel Birgand: AMS in nursing homes
• Will Bolton: AI-based clinical decision support for antibiotic optimisation and stewardship
• Dr Bernard Hernandez: Point of care decision support systems
• Dr Julie McDonald: Gut microbiota and antimicrobial resistance
• Dr Tim Rawson: Precision prescribing
• Dr Jesus Rodriguez Manzano: Molecular diagnosis of infectious diseases and AMR
• Dr Anand Shah: Antifungal stewardship and AMR in chronic lung disease
• Mr Richard Wilson: Technologies to improve antimicrobial prescribing
• Dr Nina Zhu: Assessing the impact of health interventions

Environmental drivers

• Professor Mat Fisher: Biological and environmental factors driving emerging fungal diseases across human, wildlife and plant species
• Dr Johanna Rhodes: One Health approach to balance and optimise the health of humans, animals and the environment
• Professor Darius Armstrong-James: Fungal population genomics and antimicrobial resistance
• Dr Anand Shah: Novel diagnostics to better understand resistance evolution and acquisition
• Dr Jesus Rodriguez Manzano: Diagnostic solutions, appropriate for low-resource and settings, to support the extraction, detection and characterisation of fungal infections
• Professor Pantelis Georgiou: Diagnostic solutions, appropriate for low-resource and settings, to support the extraction, detection and characterisation of fungal infections
• Professor Marc Dionne: Do insect hosts drive AMR acquisition in broad host-range pathogens?

Resistance to host defences

• Dr Luke Allsopp: Bacterial secretion systems and biofilms factors
• Professor Darius Armstrong-James: Basis of fungal persistence and adaptation in the host, phenotypic microarray facility 
• Dr Thomas Clarke: Microbiota influence on host responses to bacterial infection and vaccination
• Dr Abigail Clements: The role of bacterial surface structures in pathogenesis
• Professor Marc Dionne: How do host defences promote acquisition of antimicrobial resistance?
• Dr Andy Edwards: Bacterial DNA repair systems
• Dr Ana Eulalio: Role of microRNAs and the impact of bacterial intracellular lifestyles on pathogenesis
• Dr Harry Low: Membrane remodelling processes to evade the immune system and develop resistance
• Dr Alex McCarthy: Pathogens exploitation of immunomodulatory receptors
• Dr Brian Robertson: Host pathogen-interactions underlying tuberculosis infection
• Dr Avinash Shenoy: Inflammasome evasion by enteric bacterial pathogens
• Dr Teresa Thurston: Pathogen inhibition of innate immune signaling

Mutations and genetic changes

• Dr Luke Allsopp: Understanding how Pseudomonas aeruginosa adapts to its host and treatments
• Professor Darius Armstrong-James: Fungal population diversity, adaptation, and virulence
• Professor Marc Dionne: What is the genetic basis of resistance to host defences and antimicrobials?
• Professor Francis Drobniewski: Genomic epidemiology and prediction of resistance in TB and mycobacteria
• Professor Gad Frankel: Genomic analyses to understand healthcare-associated infections
• Dr Maria Getino: Epigenomics to track microbial communities 
• Professor Angelika Grundling: Genetic and mutant analysis to understand antibiotic resistance in Gram-positive bacteria
• Dr Elita Jauneikaite: Genomic epidemiology of bacterial pathogens to understand infections
• Dr Johanna Rhodes: Genetic epidemiology of fungal pathogens
• Dr Avinash Shenoy: Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in Enterobacter species
• Professor Shiranee Sriskandan: Genomics and molecular epidemiology to understanding and predicting resistance
• Dr Valerie Soo: Genotype/phenotype relationships in the evolution of antimicrobial resistance
• Dr Yu Wan: Genomics and epidemiology to understanding and predicting antimicrobial resistance

Patient-patient transmission

• Professor Mauricio Barahona: Predicting hospital-onset infections using dynamic networks of patient contacts and machine learning
• Dr Gabriel Birgand: Tracking AMR in nursing homes
• Professor Francis Drobniewski: Tracking resistance in the hospital environment
• Dr Elita Jauneikaite: Tracking spread of drug-resistant bacteria, mobile genetic elements between people in hospitals, mother-to-baby transmission 
• Professor James Seddon: Transmission of MDR-TB in Namibia using WGS and social network mapping
• Dr Anand Shah: Hospital-based transmissionw of antifungal resistant fungi
• Dr Matthew Siggins: factors influencing transmission of infectious disease
• Professor Robert Wilkinson: TB transmission
• Dr Nina Zhu: Underlying risk factors of infections from all settings in the community

Environmental fates of antibiotics

• Professor Nick Voulvoulis: AMRWatch - Defining the AMR burden of antimicrobial manufacturing waste
• Professor Shiranee Sriskandan: AMRWatch - Defining the AMR burden of antimicrobial manufacturing waste
• Professor Leon Barron: Examining chemical contaminants in London’s waterways throughout the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

Horizonal gene transfer

• Professor José Penadés: Molecular basis of bacterial virulence with a major focus on the mechanisms underlying the transfer of different mobile genetic elements (MGEs) 
• Dr Tiago Costa: Molecular machines driving antimicrobial resistance proliferation
• Dr Yu Wan: Molecular basis, spread, and evolution of mobile genetic elements
• Dr Luke Allsopp: Understanding acquisition and impact of HRT on the evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its virulence factors

Tracking spread

• Dr Nim Arinaminpathy: Transmission and control of TB
• Professor Darius Armstrong-James: Fungal populations genomics
• Dr Gabriel Birgand: Modeling patient pathways and monitoring sewage to monitor spread of MDR in the healthcare network
• Dr Nick Croucher:  Variations and multi-strain bacterial populations
• Dr Gina Cuomo-Dannenburg: Spread of anti-malarial resistance
• Professor Mat Fisher and Dr Jennifer Shelton: Spread of resistant Aspergillus fumigatus
• Dr Maria Getino: Epigenomics to track spread, risk factors, and transmission between humans and animals
• Dr Elita Jauneikaite: Genomic epidemiology of global spread of antimicrobial resistant bacterial pathogens
• Dr Jose Jimenez Zarco: Population dynamics in microbiomes and AMR transmission
• Dr Lucy Okell: International spread of drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparium malaria
• Dr Johanna Rhodes: Transmission events and surveillance of fungal diseases
• Professor James Seddon: Tracking the burden of multidrug-resistant TB
• Dr Matthew Siggins: Transmission dynamics of infectious disease
• Professor Shiranee Sriskandan: Transmission of respiratory pathogens in schools and households
• Dr Robert Verity: Malaria molecular surveillance

Pathogen biology

• Dr Luke Allsopp: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, bacterial secretion systems, antimicrobial resistance mechanisms and regulatory pathways
• Professor Darius Armstrong-James: Fungal population diversity and biology, phenotypic multiarray facility
• Dr Morgan Beeby: Bacterial motility
• Dr Matthew Child: Biology of eukaryotic pathogens such as Toxoplasma, Plasmodium, and Trypanosoma
• Dr Abigail Clements: Shigella and Klebsiella host-pathogen interactions
• Dr Tiago Costa: Molecular machines governing bacterial virulence
• Professor Marc Dionne: How do host and pathogen effector mechanisms interact?
• Professor Francis Drobniewski: Tuberculosis and AMR
• Dr Andy Edwards: Impact of the host on bacterial susceptibility to antibiotics
• Dr Ana Eulalio: Salmonella and staphylococcal host-pathogen interactions
• Professor Gad Frankel: Genomic analyses to understand healthcare-associated infections
• Dr Angelika Grundling: Bacterial signalling and cell wall biology
• Dr Alex McCarthy: Streptococcal host-pathogen interactions
• Professor Mariagrazia Pizza: New antigens and virulence factors
• Dr Avinash Shenoy: Virulence mechanisms of enteric bacterial pathogens
• Dr Matthew Siggins: Extracellular bacterial host-pathogen interactions with a focus on the lymphatic system
• Dr Valerie Soo: Bacterial penicillin-binding proteins
• Professor Shiranee Sriskandan: Resistance of pathogenic streptococci
• Dr Teresa Thurston: Host-pathogen interactions
• Professor Ramesh Wigneshweraraj: Bacterial RNA biology 
• Professor Robert Wilkinson:  Pathogenesis of tuberculous

Host genetics

• Professor Anthony Gordon: Developing host RNA-based diagnostics for sepsis
• Professor Mike Levin: DIAMONDs project: Developing host RNA-based diagnostics
• Dr Vanessa Sancho-Shimizu: Understanding the genetic basis of life-threatening infections
• Dr Anand Shah: Understanding host susceptibility to Aspergillus fumigatus
• Professor Armstrong-James: Clinical host-pathogen interactions, focussing on the interplay between pathogen genomics and diversity and host systems immunology in the context of underlying clinical disease states
• Professor Peter Openshaw: Immune response to pathogens
• Dr Ivana Pennisi: Developing host RNA-based point of care diagnostics
• Professor James Seddon: Using host omics for diagnosis of TB in children and prediction of future TB disease progression, understanding host genetic susceptibility to TB meningitis
• Dr Avinash Shenoy: Inflammasome and caspases in host-defence against bacterial pathogens
• Professor Marc Dionne: How does host genetics change the antimicrobial effects of immune defences?
• Dr Matthew Child: Understanding interactions of eukaryotic pathogens with their chosen host-cell using drug-like small molecules and functional genomics

Patient Management

• Dr Aula Abbara: AMR in settings of armed conflict including lived experience. Qualitative research in AMR and antimicrobial stewardship.
• Professor Armstrong-James: Clinical academic with a focus on clinical and diagnostic support for patients with fungal disease and AI-driven multiomic diagnostics
• Professor Graham Cooke: Clinical academic with a focus on antibiotic use and diagnostics
• Professor Francis Drobniewski: Clinical academic with a focus on treatment and public health aspects of respiratory infections, especially TB and mycobacterial diseases, COVID-19, diagnostics, and vaccine delivery and hesitancy
• Professor Anthony Gordon: Clinical academic with a focus on personalised medicine and clinical trials in sepsis
• Professor Alison Holmes: Public health, precision medicine, technologies, and antibiotic optimisation 
• Professor Mike Levin: Diagnosis and treatment of childhood infections 
• Professor Danny O'Hare: Diagnostics for patient management
• Professor James Seddon: Diagnosis and treatment of childhood TB, including MDR-TB
• Dr Anika Singanayagam: Clinical academic with a focus on transmission, testing, vaccines, antivirals
• Dr Anand Shah: Clinical academic with a focus on treatment of lung fungal infections and patient and healthcare perception of AMR in chronic respiratory disease 
• Richard Wilson: Development and integration of novel technologies and interventions to improve antimicrobial prescribing.
• Dr Nina Zhu: Addressing inequality in AMR burden and infection care quality through data

• Dr Aula Abbara | Patient management (Infection); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions)
• Dr Luke Allsopp | Resistance to host defences (Origins); Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Horizontal gene transfer (Transmission); Pathogen biology (Infection)
• Dr David Antcliffe | Diagnostics (Solutions)
• Professor Rossella Arcucci | AI and machine learning (Solutions)
• Professor Nim Arinaminpathy | Tracking spread (Transmission); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions)
• Professor Darius Armstrong-James | Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); Environmental drivers (Origins); Resistance to host defences (Origins); Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Tracking spread (Transmission); Patient management (Infection); Host genetics (Infection); Pathogen biology (Infection); Precision prescribing (Solutions); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions); Policy and stewardship (Solutions); Education (Solutions)
• Professor Paul Aylin | Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions)
• Dr Pedro Ballester | AI and machine learning (Solutions)
• Professor Mauricio Barahona | Patient-Patient (Transmission); AI and machine learning (Solutions)
• Dr Anna Barnard | New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
• Dr Leon Barron | Environmental fates of antibiotics (Transmission)
• Dr Gabriel Birgand | Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); Patient-Patient (Transmission); Tracking spread (Transmission); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions)
• Dr Will Bolton | Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); Precision prescribing (Solutions); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Policy and stewardship (Solutions)
• Dr Sara Boyd | Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions)
• Professor Joao Cabral | Antimicrobial surfaces (Solutions)
• Professor Tony Cass | Diagnostics (Solutions)
• Dr Matthew Child | Pathogen biology (Infection); Host genetics (Infection)
• Dr Leonid Chindelevitch | AI and machine learning (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions)
• Dr Thomas Clarke | Resistance to host defences (Origins)
• Dr Abigail Clements | Resistance to host defences (Origins); Pathogen biology (Infection)
• Professor Graham Cooke | Patient management (Infection); Pathogen biology (Infection); Precision prescribing (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions); Policy and stewardship (Solutions)
• Dr Tiago Costa | Horizontal gene transfer (Transmission); Pathogen biology (Infection)
• Dr Nick Croucher | Tracking spread (Transmission); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions)
• Professor Aubrey Cunnington | Vectors (Transmission); Diagnostics (Solutions)
• Gina Cuomo-Dannenburg | Tracking spread (Transmission)
• Dr Frances Davies | Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions)
• Professor Marc Dionne | Environmental drivers (Origins); Resistance to host defences (Origins); Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Host genetics (Infection); Pathogen biology (Infection)
• Professor Francis Drobniewski | Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Patient-Patient (Transmission); Patient management (Infection); Pathogen biology (Infection); Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions); Policy and stewardship (Solutions); Education (Solutions)
• Dr Andy Edwards | Resistance to host defences (Origins); Pathogen biology (Infection); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
• Melanie Egli | Environmental fates of antibiotics (Transmission)
• Professor Tom Ellis | Diagnostics (Solutions)
• Dr Ana Eulalio | Resistance to host defences (Origins); Pathogen biology (Infection)
• Professor Aldo Faisal | AI and machine learning (Solutions)
• Professor Matthew Fisher | Environmental drivers (Origins); Tracking spread (Transmission); Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions)
• Professor Gad Frankel | Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Pathogen biology (Infection)
• Professor Pantelis Georgiou | Vectors (Transmission); Diagnostics (Solutions)
• Dr Maria Getino | Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Tracking spread (Transmission)
• Professor Anthony Gordon | Patient management (Infection); Host genetics (Infection); Precision prescribing (Solutions); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
• Dr Kate Grailey | Understanding and addressing behaviours contributing to the antimicrobial resistance crisis
• Professor Angelika Grundling | Pathogen biology (Infection)
• Dr Shea Hamilton | Diagnostics (Solutions)
• Dr Jethro Herberg | Diagnostics (Solutions)
• Dr Bernard Hernandez | Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); Precision prescribing (Solutions); AI and machine learning (Solutions)
• Professor Sandrine Heutz | Antimicrobial surfaces (Solutions)
• Professor Alison Holmes | Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); Patient management (Infection); Precision prescribing (Solutions); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions); Policy and stewardship (Solutions)
• Dr Elita Jauneikaite | Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Patient-Patient (Transmission); Tracking spread (Transmission); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions)
• Dr Jose Jimenez Zarco | Horizontal gene transfer (Transmission); Tracking spread (Transmission)
• Professor Julian Jones | Antimicrobial surfaces (Solutions)
• Dr Myrsini Kaforou | Diagnostics (Solutions)
• Dr Catherine Kibirige | Diagnostics (Solutions)
• Dr Gerald Larrouy-Maumus | Diagnostics (Solutions); Antimicrobial surfaces (Solutions)
• Professor Mike Levin | Patient management (Infection); Host genetics (Infection); Diagnostics (Solutions)
• Dr Harry Low | Resistance to host defences (Origins)
• Dr Kenny Malpartida Cardenas | Vectors (Transmission)
• Dr Alex McCarthy | Resistance to host defences (Origins); Pathogen biology (Infection); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
• Dr Julie McDonald | Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
• Dr Damien Ming | Precision prescribing (Solutions); AI and machine learning (Solutions)
• Dr Nick Moser | Vectors (Transmission); Diagnostics (Solutions)
• Professor Danny O'Hare | Patient management (Infection); Precision prescribing (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions)
• Dr Lucy Okell | Tracking spread (Transmission)
• Professor Peter Openshaw | Host genetics (Infection); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
• Professor Faith Osier | New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
• Professor José R Penadés | Horizontal gene transfer (Transmission)
• Dr Ivana Pennisi | Host genetics (Infection); Diagnostics (Solutions)
• Professor Mariagrazia Pizza | Pathogen biology (Infection); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
• Professor Alexandra Porter | New treatments and vaccines (Solutions); Antimicrobial surfaces (Solutions)
• Dr Tim Rawson | Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); Precision prescribing (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions)
• Dr Johanna Rhodes | Environmental drivers (Origins); Tracking spread (Transmission); Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions)
• Dr Brian Robertson  | Resistance to host defences (Origins)
• Dr Jesus Rodriguez Manzano | Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); Environmental drivers (Origins); Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Vectors (Transmission); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions)
• Dr Vanessa Sanchu-Shimizu | Host genetics (Infection); Precision prescribing (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions)
• Professor James Seddon | Patient-Patient (Transmission); Tracking spread (Transmission); Patient management (Infection); Host genetics (Infection); Precision prescribing (Solutions); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
• Dr Anand Shah | Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); Environmental drivers (Origins); Patient-Patient (Transmission); Patient management (Infection); Host genetics (Infection); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
• Professor Robin Shattock | New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
• Dr Avinash Shenoy | Resistance to host defences (Origins); Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Host genetics (Infection); Pathogen biology (Infection)
• Dr Matt Siggins | Resistance to host defences (Origins); Patient-Patient (Transmission); Tracking spread (Transmission); Pathogen biology (Infection); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
• Dr Anika Singanayagam | Patient management (Infection)
• Dr Valerie Soo | Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Pathogen biology (Infection); AI and machine learning (Solutions)
• Professor Shiranee Sriskandan | Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Environmental fates of antibiotics (Transmission); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
• Professor Ed Tate | New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
• Dr Teresa Thurston | Resistance to host defences (Origins); Pathogen biology (Infection)
• Professor Chris Toumazou | Diagnostics (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions)
• Professor John Tregoning | New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
• Dr Julien Vaubourgeix | Mutations and genetic changes (Origins)
• Dr Robert Verity | Tracking spread (Transmission)
• Professor Nick Voulvoulis | Environmental fates of antibiotics (Transmission)
• Dr Yu Wan | Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Horizontal gene transfer (Transmission); Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions)
• Professor Robert Wilkinson | Patient-Patient (Transmission); Pathogen biology (Infection); Precision prescribing (Solutions); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
• Professor Daryl Williams | Antimicrobial surfaces (Solutions)
• Richard Wilson | Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); Patient management (Infection); Precision prescribing (Solutions); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Policy and stewardship (Solutions)
• Professor Ramesh Wigneshweraraj | Pathogen biology (Infection); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
• Dr Victoria Wright | Diagnostics (Solutions)
• Professor Sophia Yaliraki | AI and machine learning (Solutions)
• Dr Nina Zhu | Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); Patient-Patient (Transmission); Patient management (Infection); AI and machine learning (Solutions);