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School of the Biological Sciences

 

Professor of Microbial Genomics and Veterinary Science, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Mark Holmes leads a research group whose current focus of research is on antimicrobial resistance. His lab was responsible for the discovery of a new livestock-associated MRSA (which means methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a type of bacteria that is resistant to several antibiotics) harboring a mecA homologue (now named mecC). Learn more

 

Research Areas


Veterinary medicine
Microbiology
Genomics
Antibiotic resistance
MRSA

Techniques


Genome sequencing
Molecular biology
Bioinformatics
Epidemiology
Clinical research

Research Themes