Dr Holly Bratcher
As a pathogen research specialist, I have a multidisciplinary background in public health, forensics, and translational research. At Colorado State University, USA I received a BSc in genetics and received a WHO Research Training Fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA. I studied bacterial populations of Yersinia pestis and Francisella tularensis and helped to develop genetic and molecular tools for reference typing and diagnostic testing. In 1999 I was recruited by the FBI as a Forensic Biologist and served in both the Laboratory Division and the Counterterrorism Division. I returned to research in 2005 and completed a MSc with honours for biomedical studies in forensics at the University of Manchester, UK. I joined the Maiden Group at the University of Oxford in 2008 and completed my PhD in the genomic evolutionary development of meningococcal lineage structures. As laboratory manager I supervise undergraduate research projects.
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genomic epidemiology and evolution of bacterial population structure
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strain typing of bacterial pathogens