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Conor Meehan

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Associate Professor of Microbial Bioinformatics, Nottingham Trent University

I am a molecular epidemiologist who looks at the transmission of bacteria and viruses between humans. My work focuses primarily on Mycobacterium tuberculosis but also many other pathogens.

I graduated from NUI Maynooth, Ireland with a BSc in computational biology and genetics followed by a PhD in NUI Galway researching HIV transmission and drug resistance. I then undertook a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship at Dalhousie University, Canada looking at how bacteria swap their genetic material and how the human microbiome communities evolve. After this, in 2014 I joined the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium as a research fellow. There I led projects on Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other pathogens of the same genus, mostly looking at their transmission in high burden countries and how best to use genomics to improve public health initiatives. I am now an associate professor of microbial bioinformatics at Nottingham Trent University within the AROM microbiology group where my group looks at the evolution of bacterial pathogens and human-associated microbiomes.

Experience

  • –present
    Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Nottingham Trent University