MRC LID Cohort 3

Claire Broad (SGUL)
Project: Detecting sexual bridges: rapid genome-mapping of sexually transmitted infections among female sex worker and non-sex worker populations in Ecuador
Supervisors: Tariq Sadiq & Philip Cooper

Rhodri Edwards (LSHTM)
Project: Novel control strategies for Lutzomyia longipalpis sand flies through CRISPR-Cas9 genetic modification of olfaction and Wolbachia transinfection
Supervisors: Matthew Yeo , Thomas Walker & Matthew Rogers

Oliver Hines (LSHTM)
Project: Development of high-dimensional data-adaptive causal inference methods to unravel the role of genetics in determining heart rhythm
Supervisors: Karla Diaz-Ordaz, Yalda Jamshidi & James Carpenter

Harriet Jones (LSHTM)
Project: Developing a data system to inform real-time public health action among female sex workers in Zimbabwe
Supervisors: James Hargreaves & Bernadette Hensen
Find out more about Harriet’s experience on our MRC DTP programme.

Charlotte Kerr (LSHTM)
Project: A “One Health” approach to investigating the epidemiology and control of human Brucellosis and Q-fever in peri-urban areas of two sub-Saharan African countries
Supervisors: Patrick Nguipdop-Djomo & Punam Mangtani

Quentin Leclerc (LSHTM)
Project: What drives antibiotic resistance diversity? Modelling for MRSA control
Supervisors: Gwen Knight & Jodi Lindsay
Find out more about Quentin’s experience on our MRC DTP programme.

Eleanor Rees (LSHTM)
Project: Modelling leptospirosis at the animal-human interface in island populations
Supervisors: Adam Kucharski, Rachel Lowe & John Edmunds
Find out more about Eleanor’s experience on our MRC DTP programme.

Rebecca Roscoe (LSHTM)
Project: Targeting nutrient uptake and salvage pathways in Trypanosoma cruzi
Supervisors: Martin Taylor & John Kelly
Find out more about Rebecca’s experience on our MRC DTP programme.

Alicia Showering (LSHTM)
Project: The role of the Skin Microbiome in Human Attractiveness to Malaria Mosquitoes
Supervisors: James Logan & Rachel Allen
Find out more about Alicia’s experience on our MRC DTP programme.