News

2025

May 2025 - Emily Read joins the lab as a new Post-doc. Emily will be exploring microbe x host glycan interactions! Welcome Emily! 

April 2025 - Haile Hassen Konso and Thu Trang Doan Ngu join the lab for their MSc in Medical Microbiology research projects. Welcome both! 

March 2025 - New minireview on Ranaviruses published in Trends in Microbiology.

2024​

​October 2024 - Burhan Ahmed joins the lab for his MSc project exploring toxin genes in Clostridium perfringens. A collaboration with UKHSA. 

October 2024 - Anna Wheeler joins the lab for a placement research year. Welcome Anna! 

August 2024  - MRes in Bioinformatics student Siril Sunil handed in his thesis. Congratulations, Siril!

July 2024 - Kieran is awarded a £1.1 million BBSRC New Investigator Grant exploring glycome-microbiome interactions in amphibians! QMUL announcement here

March 2024 - Kieran and Ruairi Robertson launch the QMUL Microbiome Network. 

2023

October 2023 - Bates Lab moves from Oxford to our new home at the Blizard Institute, QMUL!