Meet the Team
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Hilary Browne PhD
Group Leader
Associate Professor/ Senior Lecturer
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Aaron Curtis PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Aaron’s project seeks to identify and characterise gut bacteria inhibitory to fungal opportunistic pathogens
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Louisa Faherty-McGrath
PhD Student
Louisa uses in vitro and genomic approaches to understand the triggers that control sporulation and germination of gut bacteria
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Francesco Vacca
PhD Student
Francesco focuses on large-scale phylogenomic and functional analysis of bacterial spore-formers
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Sarah Nolan
Research Assistant
Sarah maintains our large diverse culture-collection of human gut bacteria
Lab Alumni
Karla Solis Salazar. Visiting Scientist from University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica. Summer 2025
Camilo Alejandro Garcia. Visiting Scientist from University of the Andes, Colombia. Summer 2025