Francesc Coll

I am a computational biologist with expertise in bacterial genomics and clinical microbiology. I joined the London School in July 2016 as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Prof. Sharon Peacock's lab funded by a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship. I am currently working in the application of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in bacteria to identify the genes that make bacteria resistant to antibiotics and able to cause infections. Since I joined Sharon’s group in 2014 at the University of Cambridge, I have worked in the genomic epidemiology of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Vancomycin-resistance Enterococcus faecium, two major nosocomial pathogens. In October 2014, I completed his Ph.D. at the School under the supervision of Prof. Taane Clark, which focused