Meet the members of the Bagby lab!
Dr Stefan Bagby, PI
Stefan did a Chemistry degree and DPhil at Oxford, followed by a post doc in Toronto. While at Oxford, he worked on protein electrochemistry and protein NMR. Since he’s been at Bath, his research interests have included structure-function studies and biotechnological applications of proteins, and more recently applications of Nanopore sequencing.
Current projects include clinical metagenomics, DNA methylation in bacteria, the role of microbes in centipede venom composition and evolution, autoantibody detection, and analysis of a fish mutant that lacks a heart.
Contact me directly: bsssb@bath.ac.uk
Luke Jones, 3rd year PhD student
Luke is a biochemistry Ph.D. student at the University of Bath, focusing on Microbiology, Clinical Metagenomics, and Bioinformatics. He has a background in Microbiology and Infectious Disease from the University of Aberystwyth.
Contact me directly: lj752@bath.ac.uk
Flo Adams, 3rd year PhD student
Flo works on autoimmune disease and is developing lab methods which can be used to detect such diseases a less invasive way than traditional methods.
Contact me directly: fea24@bath.ac.uk
Stan Thompson, 2nd year PhD student
Stan did his MRes at the University of Portsmouth exploring the use of nanopore DNA sequencing for diagnosing early onset Crohn's disease.
His current research at the University of Bath is Investigating a unique medaka mutant known as Sakura that among other things lacks a heart, which can be used as a developmental study system.
His preferred research areas are genomics, Nanopore DNA sequencing, and developmental biology.
Stans project is part sponsored by Oxford Nanopore Technologies.
Contact me directly: scdt21@bath.ac.uk
Harriet Jameson, 2nd year PhD student
Harriet did her Undergraduate and Masters degrees at the University of Plymouth in Marine Biology, with both dissertation projects focussing on the venom of the lesser weever fish, Echiichthys vipera.
She now works on the evolution of centipede venom, specifically looking at the role that the microbiome plays in the production of venom toxins, and how this has occurred throughout evolutionary history. She works alongside Dr. Ronald Jenner at the Natural History Museum in London as well as Oxford Nanopore technologies, who sponsor half of the project.
Contact me directly: hlj48@bath.ac.uk