Dr. Johanna Rhodes
My research aims are focused on the evolution of emerging fungal pathogens. I am currently an independent Research Fellow using metagenomics to explore the role of infection in the development of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease. I am also heavily involved in the Wellcome Trust grant “Understanding and mitigating the impact of emerging antifungal resistance”. This role involves population genomics genetic and biostatistical analyses of Aspergillus fumigatus, an environmental fungus to which all humans are exposed causing disease in millions, and which is rapidly evolving resistance to azole antifungal drugs worldwide.
Renad Aljohani
PhD student
Renad is in her final year, and is interested in how A. fumigatus adapts to the human lung using a multi ‘omics approach
Hugh Gifford
PhD student
Hugh’s goal is to improve the care of critically ill patients in the African continent, where the burden of life-threatening fungal disease is massive
Laila Alsharqi
PhD student
Laila is a fsecond year PhD student in the Armstrong-James and Rhodes’ groups.
Alumni
Chloe Hui
MSc student
Chloe worked on the emerging human fungal pathogen, Trichophyton indotineae. She now works as a bioinformatician at LSTM.
Rodrigo Leitao
Rodrigo was a research assistant on the Alzheimer’s Disease project, and is involved in the newly funded NERC Azole-resistant A. fumigatus hotspots project
Clarisse Wan
MSc student
Clarisse has an interest in the aetiology of neurodegenerative diseases, and has worked on the Wellcome Trust-funded Alzheimer’s Project, establishing the metagenomics pipeline.
Ben Simmons
Lab technician
Ben has a medical background and worked on minimum inhibitory concentrations of A. fumigatus isolates
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