Research Centres
Interactions, media and news
Interactions and collaborators
Interactions within the University
We collaborate with a diverse array of research groups and core facilities in the University of Leicester and across different research themes.
- Electron Microscopy Core Facility - Facility manager Natalie Allcock (nsa2@le.ac.uk)
- Genetics and Genome Biology
- Leicester Microbial Sciences and Infectious Diseases Centre (LeMID)
- Institute for Precision Health
- Institute for Structural and Chemical Biology
- Respiratory Sciences
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre
Our collaborators
Professor Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén
- Computational phage biodiscovery
Learn more about Professor Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén
Dr Bent Petersen
- Evolutionary genomics
Professor Dave Scanlan
- Cyanophages
- AMGs
Learn more about Professor Dave Scanlan
Professor Gary Bending
- Soil viromics
Professor Yin Chen
- Pseudomonas phages
- Viromics
Learn more about Professor Yin Chen
Dr Rich Puxty
- Cyanophages
- Mycobacterium phages
- Phage engineering
Learn more about Dr Rich Puxty
Dr Eduardo Quiroz Guzmán
- Phage therapy in aquaculture
Learn more about Dr Eduardo Quiroz Guzmán
Dr Mathias Middelboe
- Vibrio prophages
Learn more about Dr Mathias Middelboe
Professor Simon Carding
- Gut phages
Learn more about Professor Simon Carding
Dr Ellie Jameson
- Viromics
Learn more about Dr Ellie Jameson
Dr Dominic Sauvageau
- Bacteriophage engineering and co-infection
Learn more about Dr Dominic Sauvageau
Professor Hoàng Anh Hoàng
- Phage therapy in aquaculture
Learn more about Professor Hoàng Anh Hoàng
Professor Andey Letarov
- Viromics of horses
- Pseudolysogeny
Learn more about Professor Andey Letarov
Professor Dov Stekel
- Modelling phage infections
- Phages in animal slurries
Learn more about Professor Dov Stekel
Dr Jon Hobman
- Environmental E. coli phages
- Phages in animal slurries
Learn more about Dr Jon Hobman
Professor Sunee Korbsrisate
- Phages of Salmonella and Burkholderia
Learn more about Professor Sunee Korbsrisate
Dr Mohammad Al Madadha
- Phage therapy of UTI
Learn more about Dr Mohammad Al Madadha
Dr Mohammed Imam
- Phage therapy in Saudi Arabia
Dr Michael Jones
- Phages in animal slurries
Learn more about Dr Michael Jones
Dr Manuel Banzhaf
Learn more about Dr Manuel Banzhaf
Dr Jennifer Mahony
- Mechanisms of phage infection
Learn more about Dr Jennifer Mahony
Miss Pravisha Ravindra
- Consultant in Urology UHoL
Dr Marie Noelle Vieu, MD
- Public health consultant with experience in infectious disease management
Dr Paul Robson
- Social researcher with expertise in system analysis
Centre for Excellence for Omics-Driven Computational Biodiversity
Learn more about the Centre for Excellence for Omics-Driven Computational Biodiversity
Public outreach and media coverage
Videos
- Professor Martha Clokie provides evidence at the UK House of Lords about the antimicrobial potential of bacteriophages (2025)
- Bacteriophages
- UK Phage Innovation Showcase
- UK Parliament - The antimicrobial potential of bacteriophages oral evidence
- University of Leicester discovers bacteria-eating viruses to fight superbugs
- Teaching phage biology in Tanzania
- Phages in Belum in Rainforest (in Danish)
- Professor Martha Clokie at Phages 2022 at Oxford
- The Women's Awards - East Midlands winner, Professor Martha Clokie
- Dr Martha Clokie at the 2021 Africa Phage Forum Symposium
- Professor Martha Clokie's talk on Phage research for the Public Health Society
- Using Phage therapy to prevent bacterial disease in muga silkworms
- Bacteriophages used instead of antibiotics on pigs
- LPM Healthcare broadcasting
Programmes/podcasts
- The Economist: Turning the phage on drug-resistant bacteria
- BBC Radio 4: The Life Scientific
- BBC: Discovery
Articles
- The Guardian: Bacteria-killing viruses could combat antibiotic resistance, says UK scientist
- Sky news - Superbugs: Bacteria-busting viruses may be key
- ITV news - Superbug treatment identified
News and events
2024
2023
- Ryan Cook won best poster at the Viruses of Microbes VoM conference (Tbilisi, Georgia, on 3–7 July 2023) who was co-supervised by Andy Millard.
- Andrew Kinsella got runner up poster prize at “The Medical Research Foundation National PhD Training Programme in AMR”.
- Rebecca Quinn won “best talk by an Early Career Researcher at Evergreen Phage conference (USA, Aug 6-11)”. Rebecca is supervised by Rich Puxty at University of Warwick and co-supervised by Andy Millard.