Oliver Charity

Biography

Oliver Charity hold a bachelor’s degree from the University of Leicester where he studied microbiology, undertaking a dissertation investigating chemotaxis in the food-borne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni. Subsequently he was invited to stay on with university funding to study copper resistance and drug efflux in drug-resistance persistent pathogens Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae. He have industrial experience from working as a microbiologist for a large food company, and prior to my PhD studentship undertook a six month research project characterizing an integrative conjugative element in Campylobacter coli.

Research Interest

Host-pathogen interactions, bacterial genomics, horizontal gene transfer, virology, bacteriophage and machine learning applications to biological questions