Mark Holmes

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