The aims of the Department are to investigate host/pathogen interactions and bacterial antibiotic production. We utilise post-genomic approaches to help us understand infectious diseases better and, in doing so, develop new antimicrobial agents and vaccines to target them.

The Department is involved in teaching across many programmes within the Faculty, contributing to programmes in microbiology, biomedical sciences, molecular biology, biochemistry and food science/nutrition.  We are involved in teaching at the undergraduate and postgraduate level and we have a vibrant postgraduate research student population working in the different research areas.

Dr Lisa Roberts (Head of Department)