Dr David Walker-Sünderhauf

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

After completing a PhD affiliated with the European Centre for Environment and Human Health, David Walker-Sünderhauf is now continuing his work as a postdoctoral research fellow.

David has a particular interest in mobile antibiotic resistance genes, how they transfer between bacteria, and how they shape bacterial ecology and evolution. His work explores how resistance genes can be removed from a range of diverse bacteria using CRISPR-Cas9, with the aim to stop widespread dispersal of antibiotic resistance genes within bacterial communities.

David is funded by Assistant Professor Stineke van Houte’s Lister Prize and JPIAMR MISTAR consortium grant, on which Professor Will Gaze is Co-PI. He is based at the Centre’s labs in Penryn.

You can also find David on the van Houte lab’s webpages.

 

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