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Callum J Portman Ross

Email:                   cjportmanross1@sheffield.ac.uk 
​PhD:                      2019-
Department:  
MBB (Sheffield), CBCB (Newcastle)

Supervisor(s): Prof Simon Foster
​                                 Prof Nikolay Zenkin
                                                                    
​Project:  The making of a Super Bug. Understanding the mechanisms of high level antibiotic resistance in Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

I completed my undergraduate degree in biomedical sciences at the University of Essex. I completed an undergraduate research placement in molecular microbiology using qPCR of functional genes to investigate Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Functional Microbial Communities. I completed my undergraduate research project focusing on multidrug efflux in Neisseria gonorrhoeae under the supervision of Dr V Bavro.
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I worked in industrially accredited food, water environmental microbiology alongside college and undergraduate degree, as a result I undertook work experience in Food, water and environmental microbiology and a summer placement on antibiotic resistance (Biosafety) at Public Health England, Porton Down.
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My PhD aims to determine the role of mecA and RNA polymerase in high level antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus using interdisciplinary approaches including bacterial 2 hybrid assay, fluorescence microscopy and protein analysis and to determine the fitness costs of expressing high level antibiotic resistance in vivo.

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