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Public Practices - primary investigators

Name	Role	Keywords
Dr Emma Pitchforth	Senior Lecturer & Senior Research Fellow in Primary Care	Health systems and policies, social science, public health, primary care
Professor Richard Smith	Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor and Professor of Health Economics	Economics, social science, environment
Dr Ruth Garside	Senior Lecturer in Evidence Synthesis	Systematic review, social science, evidence synthesis, sea water, infections
Professor Karen Mattick	Professor of Medical Education	Education, training, teamwork, antimicrobial stewardship, social and professional factors, health systems
Professor William Gaze	Professor of Microbiology	Environment, policy, microbiome, evolution ecology, public health, agriculture, evidence
Professor Steve Hinchliffe	Professor of Geography and Co-Director of Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health	One health, risk, microbiome; social relations
Professor Henry Buller	Professor of Geography	Social science, animal health, farming and veterinary practice
Professor Michael Depledge	Honorary Professor and Chair of the ECEHH Advisory Board	Environment, human health, marine health
Professor Adilla Warris	Professor in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Deputy Director MRC Centre for Medical Mycology	Antifungal resistance, azole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus, evolution, clinical implications

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Evolution and Mechanisms - primary investigators

Name	Role	Keywords
Professor William Gaze	Professor of Microbiology	Environment, policy, microbiome, evolution ecology, public health, agriculture, evidence
Professor Robert Beardmore	Professor of Mathematical Biosciences	Mathematical modelling, evolutionary datasets, antibiotic resistance
Dr Lihong Zhang	Research Fellow	Antibiotic resistance, molecular microbiology, environmental microbiology, medical microbiology, microbial ecology
Professor Angus Buckling	Professor of Evolutionary Biology	Evolutionary ecology, antimicrobial resistance
Dr Michiel Vos	Senior Lecturer	Microbiology, evolutionary ecology, population genomics, bacterial genome evolution, ecology of antibiotic resistance and virulence genes
Professor Neil Gow	Professor of Microbiology and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Impact)	Antifungal resistance, Candida auris, antifungal drug transit, drug resistance mechanisms, echinocandins, antifungal drugs, antifungal therapies
Professor Adilla Warris	Professor in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Deputy Director MRC Centre for Medical Mycology	Antifungal resistance, azole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus, evolution, clinical implications
Professor Al Brown	Deputy Director MRC Centre for Medical Mycology	Antifungal resistance, evolution
Professor Edze Westra	Professor / NERC Independent Research Fellow	Ecological variables, evolution, immune strategies, bacteria, phage, CRISPR
Dr Stineke Van Houte	BBSRC Future Leadership Fellow	CRISPR-Cas, bacteria-phage interactions, AMR plasmid spread in microbial communities
Professor Stuart Townley	Professor in Applied Mathematics	Systems modelling, analysis and management
Dr Aimee Murray	Lecturer	Culturing, molecular methods (qPCR, cloning, functional metagenomics), next-generation sequencing, metagenome analyses, evolution experiments
Dr Ben Raymond	Associate Professor	Experimental evolutionary ecology, insects, plants, bacterial pathogens and symbionts, virulence and resistance, parasites, symbionts, Bacillus thruringiensis and resistance to antibiotics
Dr Rhys Farrer	Lecturer in Bioinformatics at MRC Centre for Medical Mycology	Genome sequencing, hospital outbreak strains, C. auris, C. neoformans, C. gattii, environmental sequencing, variant discovery in antifungal targets, ERG11, tool/database development of drug resistance alleles, MARDy
Dr Alan Brown	Senior Lecturer in Molecular Microbiology	Molecular bacteriology, niche adaptation and antimicrobial resistance, host-pathogen interactions, immunotherapy
Professor Ivana Gudelj	Professor of Evolutionary Systems Biology	Mathematical modelling, multi-species communities, evolution, antifungals
Dr Steven Porter	Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry	Bacterial signal transduction, novel antimicrobial development, kinase inhibitors, sensor kinase, protein biochemistry, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Burkholderia pseudomallei
Professor Sarah Gurr	Chair in Food Security	Antifungals, fungicide resistance, evolution, global movement and stewardship of antifungals
Dr Phil Mitchelmore	Clinical Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine	Bronchiectasis, Cystic Fibrosis, lung disease, cross-infection, microbiome, antimicrobial resistance
Dr Remy Chait	Lecturer	Technology development, bioscience

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Technology and Data - primary investigators

Name	Role	Keywords
Professor Robert Beardmore	Professor of Mathematical Biosciences	Mathematical modelling; data analysis
Dr Mario Recker	Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics	Antigenically and phenotypically diverse pathogens, Plasmodium falciparum, dengue, Staphylococcus aureus, mathematical and data analytic frameworks, pathology, evolutionary epidemiology, host-pathogen interactions, gene expression, immune selection
Dr Stuart Daines	Research Fellow	Marine ecology, biochemistry, coevolution, physical environment
Professor Stuart Townley	Professor in Applied Mathematics	Systems modelling, analysis and management
Dr Remy Chait	Lecturer	Technology development, bioscience
Dr Tobias Bergmiller	Lecturer	Technology development, molecular biology
Dr Stefano Pagliara	Senior Lecturer in Microfluidics	Technology development, single-cell response, membrane transport, drug uptake, antibiotic tolerance, ageing
Dr Jehangir Cama	Industry Research Fellow	Single-cell phenotyping, drug development assays, membrane transport, technology development
Professor Ivana Gudelj	Professor of Evolutionary Systems Biology	Mathematical modelling, synthetic biology, multi-species communities
Dr Lihong Zhang	Research Fellow	Molecular microbiology, environmental microbiology, medical microbiology, microbial ecology
Dr Stineke Van Houte	BBSRC Future Leadership Fellow	CRISPR-Cas9 gene drives to fight AMR, phage identification, phage-based approaches to fight pathogenic infections
Professor Adilia Warris	Professor in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Deputy Director MRC Centre for Medical Mycology	Azole-resistant A. fumigatus, CRISPR
Professor Henry Buller	Professor of Geography, Head of Exeter Geography	Social science approaches to diagnostic pathways and diagnostic tool development in clinical veterinary science
Dr Rhys Farrer	Lecturer in Bioinformatics at MRC Centre for Medical Mycology	Tool/database development, genomic and transcriptomic changes, micro evolutionary and species comparisons, ChIPseq, chromatin regulation, gene expression
Dr Alan Brown	Senior Lecturer in Molecular Microbiology	Molecular bacteriology, niche adaptation and antimicrobial resistance, host-pathogen interactions immunotherapy
Dr Steven Porter	Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry	Bacterial signal transduction, novel antimicrobial development, kinase inhibitors, sensor kinase, protein biochemistry, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Burkholderia pseudomallei.
Dr Mike Allen	Associate Professor of Single Cell Genomics	Antibiotic resistance, molecular microbiology, environmental microbiology, medical microbiology, microbial ecology, feed/energy conversion, oceans and human health; environment and human health, technology development
Professor Sarah Gurr	Chair in Food Security	Antifungals, fungicide resistance, evolution, global movement and stewardship of antifungals
Professor Andrew Shaw	Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry	Attomarker, physical chemistry, screening, biomarkers, disease, differential diagnostics

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Planetary Health - primary investigators

Name	Role	Keywords
Professor William Gaze	Professor of Microbiology	Environment, policy, microbiome, evolution ecology, public health, agriculture, evidence
Dr Lihong Zhang	Research Fellow	Antibiotic resistance, molecular microbiology, environmental microbiology, medical microbiology, microbial ecology
Professor Steve Hinchliffe	Professor of Geography and Co-Director of Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health	One health, risk, microbiome, social relations
Professor Neil Gow	Professor of Microbiology and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Impact)	Antifungal drug transit, fungal cell wall, drug resistance mechanisms, Candida species, Candida auris, echinocandins novel antifungal therapies, combination therapy and immunotherapies
Dr Aimee Murray	Lecturer	Culturing, molecular methods (qPCR, cloning, functional metagenomics), next-generation sequencing, metagenome analyses, evolution experiments
Professor Lora Fleming	Director of the European Centre for Environment and Human Health and Chair of Oceans, Epidemiology and Human Health	Public health, epidemiology; oceans and human health; environment and human health
Professor Charles Tyler	Professor of Environmental Biology/ Academic Lead	Environmental contaminants, physiological processes, genetic techniques, genomic techniques
Dr Anne Leonard	Lecturer	Environment, policy, microbiome, ecology, public health, evidence
Professor Stuart Townley	Professor in Applied Mathematics	Systems modelling, analysis and management
Professor Henry Buller	Professor of Geography, Head of Exeter Geography	Social science approaches, one-health pathways, antimicrobial reduction in Thailand, antimicrobial use in livestock systems in Tanzania
Dr Mike Allen	Associate Professor of Single Cell Genomics	Antibiotics resistance, molecular microbiology, environmental microbiology, medical microbiology, microbial ecology, feed/energy conversion, oceans and human health; environment and human health, technology development
Professor Sarah Gurr	Chair in Food Security	Antifungals, fungicide resistance, evolution, global movement and stewardship of antifungals
Dr Phil Mitchelmore	Clinical Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine	Bronchiectasis, Cystic Fibrosis, lung disease, cross-infection, microbiome, antimicrobial resistance
Dr Michiel Vos	Senior Lecturer in Microbiology	Microbiology, evolutionary ecology, population genomics, bacterial genome evolution, ecology of antibiotic resistance and virulence genes

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Environment - primary investigators

Name	Role	Keywords
Professor William Gaze	Professor of Microbiology	Environment, policy, microbiome, evolution ecology, public health, agriculture, evidence
Professor Edze Westra	Professor / NERC Independent Research Fellow	Ecological variables, evolution, immune strategies, bacteria, phage, CRISPR
Dr Lihong Zhang	Research Fellow	Antibiotic resistance, molecular microbiology, environmental microbiology, medical microbiology, microbial ecology
Dr Stineke Van Houte	BBSRC Future Leadership Fellow	CRISPR-Cas, bacteria-phage interactions, AMR plasmid spread in microbial communities
Dr Anne Leonard	Lecturer	Environment, policy, microbiome, ecology, public health, evidence
Dr Aimee Murray	Lecturer	Culturing, molecular methods (qPCR, cloning, functional metagenomics), next-generation sequencing, metagenome analyses, evolution experiments
Dr Stefano Pagliara	Senior Lecturer in Microfluidics	Technology development; single-cell response, membrane transport, drug uptake, antibiotic tolerance, ageing
Professor Angus Buckling	Professor of Evolutionary Biology	Evolutionary ecology, antimicrobial resistance
Professor Stuart Townley	Professor in Applied Mathematics	Systems modelling, analysis and management
Dr Michiel Vos	Senior Lecturer Microbiology	Evolutionary ecology, population genomics, bacterial genome evolution, ecology of antibiotic resistance and virulence genes
Professor Sarah Gurr	Chair in Food Security	Antifungals, fungicide resistance, evolution, global movement and stewardship of antifungals
Dr Mario Recker	Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics	Antigenically and phenotypically diverse pathogens, Plasmodium falciparum, dengue, Staphylococcus aureus, mathematical and data analytic frameworks, pathology, evolutionary epidemiology, host-pathogen interactions, gene expression, immune selection

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