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Bacterial Infection Ecology

Microbial communities colonise many parts of our bodies, critically impacting our health such as by protecting against pathogens. But how the diverse microbes arrange and organise themselves to generate health effects is largely unknown. To tackle this challenge, we are developing methods to map the structure of the microbiome and resolve how this structure affects health benefits. In addition, we study how microbiota influence and manipulate us, aiming for real translational and clinical potential including the development of probiotic anti-infectives and microbiota-inspired immunotherapeutics.