Professor Mike Barer
College Director of Research, Professor of Clinical Microbiology and Honorary Consultant Microbiologist
Contact details
Personal Assistant: TBC
Office: 136b, MSB
Telephone:(+44) (0)116 252 2951/2933
E-mail: mrb19@le.ac.uk
Research
We work at the interface between bacterial physiology and human infection concentrating on Tuberculosis and gastrointestinal infections.
Themes include:
- The physiology of M. tuberculosis during infection;
- TB genomics applied to public health and strain characterisation in real time;
- The nature of bacterial viability and its practical detection;
- The biological properties of enteric bacteria that underpin their transmission;
- Methods to determine the properties of bacteria in their natural environments;
- Culture-independent approaches to determining the aetiology and pathogenesis of bacterial diseases.
- Publications
Selected Recent Publications
Cheah ES, Malkin J, Free RC, Lee SM, Perera N, Woltmann G, Patel H, Kimmitt PT, Smith RJ, Rajakumar K, Barer MR. A two-tube combined TaqMan/SYBR Green assay to identify microbacteria and detect single global lineage-defining polymorphisms in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J Mol Diagn 2010;12(2):250-6
Mukamolova GV, Turapov O, Malkin J, Woltmann G, Barer M. Resuscitation-promoting factors reveal an occult population of tubercle Baccilli in sputum. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2010;181(2):174-80
