Professor Julian Ketley

Professor Julian Ketley
Head Of Department
Professor of Bacterial Genetics

Tel: +44 (0)116 252 3434
Fax: +44 (0)116 252 3378

E-Mail: ket@le.ac.uk

BSc (Hons) (First Class) University of Birmingham PhD (Microbiology)
University of Birmingham CBiol (Chartered Biologist, Society of Biology)

Background Information

Julian Ketley went to the University of Birmingham to study biological sciences, specializing in microbiology. He stayed in Birmingham to complete his PhD in the Department of Microbiology, which was headed by Prof Harry Smith. Under the supervision of Dr John Stephen, Julian investigated the production and role of toxins A and B of Clostridium difficile. After obtaining his PhD in 1986, he left these shores for a postdoctoral position with Prof Jim Kaper at the Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland at Baltimore. Here he worked on the construction of the live Vibrio cholerae vaccine strain, CVD103HgR, and Zot toxin. Having been awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, Julian returned to the UK, joining the Department of Genetics in 1990. He was awarded a personal Chair at the University of Leicester in 2001.