Research

External collaborations

Imperial College, BBSRC LOLA Award. Mapping Combinatorial Stress Responses in Bacteria Using Chimeric Proteins and Probabilistic Modelling. 2009 -

Imperial College, "Grand Challenges in Global Health" programme on "Drugs for Latent Tuberculosis" with collaborators in the UK, USA, Singapore, Korea and Mexico. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 2005 - 2009.

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Forschungsinstitut Borstel, Germany Queen Mary College, University of London Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece, "Imaging TB" is a consortium funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to establish real-time imaging methods for direct detection of M. tuberculosis during infection in vivo.. Web link

Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands The Netherlands Cancer Institute/Antoni van Leeuwenhoekhuis, The Netherlands Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Germany Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovena, "Systems biology of phagosome formation and maturation - modulation by intracellular pathogens" (PHAGOSYS) is funded under the EU FP7 programme, and ultimately aims to find new interventions that promote clearance of intracellular bacteria by phagocytic cells, and so boost innate immunity.. Web link

Central Institue for Tuberculosis, Moscow, Prof Alexander Apt.

Guest lectures

The Systems Biology of Phagocytosis. Society for General Microbiology symposium on Signalling and Systems Biology, Edinburgh. 2010.

Tools for TB Drug Development: Achieving the Global Plan. Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa. 2010.

Imaging Tuberculosis: New Tools for Mycobacteria. Optimization of Inhaled Tuberculosis Therapies & Implications for Host-Pathogen Interactions, New Delhi. 2009.

Imaging Tuberculosis - New Tools for Mycobacteria. In search of drugs for latent TB. Institute Pasteur, Paris. 2009.

Global Approaches to TB Biology. UK-China Joint Initiative on Infectious Disease, Beijing. 2008.

Look Global, Focus Local:- Mycobacterial control of phagosome pH. Keystone Tuberculosis Symposium 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 22 Mar 2007.