People

Started during COVID-19, a group of us meet every other week for FortKnight where we have presentations either on our own work or a problem we are facing / someone else’s work. Check out my Twitter feed for examples of our interesting discussions. Currently 8 people meet regularly as part of “KnightGroup”.

Research fellows & postdocs

• Naomi Waterlow
  • Research Fellow (2023 - present), based at LSHTM, currently on maternity leave
  • Project: Working on my MRC CDA fellowship exploring patterns of resistance variation by age.
  • Funding: MRC CDA
• Eve Emes
  • Research Fellow (2021 - present), based at LSHTM
  • Project: SEFASI building on work with A4NH. Economic modelling to evaluate the impact of interventions to reduce antibiotic usage in food-producing animals.
  • Funding: Now SEFASI, but initially a collaboration between LSHTM and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) called ‘Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)’, funded by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research with Jo Lines (LSHTM) and Jeff Waage (London International Development Centre)

PhD Students

• Naomi Fuller
  • PhD Student (2020 - present)
  • Project: Resistance evolution in the presence of combination therapy (focus on TB)
  • Funding: LiDO fellowship
  • Co-supervisors: Tim McHugh (UCL)
• Jacob Wildfire
  • PhD Student (2020 - present)
  • Project: Barriers to the spread of antimicrobial resistance by horizontal gene transfer (focus on MRSA)
  • Funding: MRCLID fellowship
  • Co-supervisors (primary): Jodi Lindsay (St George’s, University of London)
• Alastair Clements
  • PhD Student (2021 - present)
  • Project: Modelling antibiotic combination therapy and generalised transduction
  • Funding: MRCLID fellowship
  • Co-supervisors: Jodi Lindsay (St George’s, University of London)
• Max Wallat
  • PhD Student (2022 - present)
  • Project: MRSA gene transfer
  • Funding: MRCLID fellowship
  • Co-supervisors: (primary): Jodi Lindsay (St George’s, University of London)
• Chaelin Kim
  • PhD Student (2023 - present)
  • Project: Modelling efficacy of new regimens for MDR-TB
  • Funding: MRCLID fellowship
  • Co-supervisors: (primary): Finn McQuaid (LSHTM)

Past postdocs

• Nichola Naylor
  • Public Health England, Economist / Honorary contract at LSHTM
  • Research Fellow (2018 - 2020), based at LSHTM
  • Project: Evaluating the potential impact of interventions to reduce antimicrobial use in livestock on human antimicrobial resistance and drug-resistant infections, with a focus on low and middle income settings
  • Funding: A collaboration between LSHTM and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) called ‘Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)’, funded by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
  • Collaborators: Jo Lines (LSHTM) and Jeff Waage (London International Development Centre)
• Anneke de Vos
  • Research Fellow (2018 - 2020), based at Erasmus MC, Univ. Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Project: Investigating the underlying mechanisms of MRSA clonal dynamics
  • Funding: MACOTRA
  • Collaborators: Magreet Vos (PI), Sake de Vlas (Erasmus MC), and M.E.E. (Mirjam) Kretzschmar (UMC Utrecht)
• Andrea Weisse
  • Research Associate (2018 - 2020), based at Imperial College London
  • Project: Mechanisms of spread and control of carbapenem resistant bacteria
  • Funding: CDC MIND-Healthcare Program
  • Collaborators: Alison Holmes and Eili Klein (CDDEP)

Past research assistants

• Yalda Jafari
  • Research Assistant (2020-2021), based at LSHTM, now doing a PhD at Oxford.
  • Project: Nosocomial transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the UK
  • Funding: NIHR UKRI
  • Collaborators: Julie Robotham and Stephanie Evans at PHE, Ben Cooper at Oxford University and Jon Read at Lancaster University.

Past Students

• Quentin Leclerc, now at Institut Pasteur.
  • PhD Student (2018 - 2022)
  • Project: Modelling to understand horizontal gene transfer: the example of transduction in Methillin Resistant S. aureus (MRSA)
  • Funding: MRC LID fellowship
  • Co-supervisors: Jodi Lindsay (St George’s, University of London)
• Nichola Naylor
  • PhD Student (2015 - 2019), first at LSHTM (see above), then UKHSA.
  • Project: Economic evaluations of the burden of E. coli infections in England
  • Co-supervisors: Julie Robotham (PHE & Imperial College London) and Rifat Atun (Harvard School of Public Health)
• Sophie Rhodes
  • PhD Student (2014 - 2017), continued her PhD work at LSHTM and now in Pharma.
  • Project: Using mathematical modelling to improve vaccine dosing for tuberculosis disease
  • Co-supervisors: Richard White (LSHTM) and Helen Fletcher (LSHTM)