The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Dr Lauren Cowley whose research centres around public health and infectious diseases. She works closely with the UK Health Security Agency.
00:00 Introduction.
00:24 How did you become interested in studying infectious diseases?
01:22 Studying Shiga toxigenic E. coli.
03:04 Using whole genome sequencing to track the evolution of bacteria.
04:56 Plasmids.
06:35 Using Machine Learning.
09:43 Current projects.
11:50 Bacteriophage therapy.
13:34 Working on the Ebola outbreak 2014-2016.
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