Charlotte (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Baker Lab at the University of Cambridge and is funded through the MultiDefence project.
She completed both her undergraduate and master’s degrees in Microbiology at the University of Liverpool. In 2016, she started her BBSRC and Unilever funded PhD project, under the supervision of Dr Mal Horsburgh (University of Liverpool). Her studies were focused on the human scalp microbiome. She joined the research group led by Prof. Kate Baker in 2021, as a PDRA investigating Shigella genomics to understand its evolution, epidemiology and diversity. Charlotte’s work is now focused on using bioinformatics approaches to understand the bacterial immune system of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Connect with Charlotte on @CharlotteChong_.