Glyn Barrett
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+44 (0) 118 378 8893
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Lecturer
- Programme Director BSc Zoology
- Co-ordinating and delivering teaching programmes within the School of Biological Sciences
- Module Convenor for: Marine Biology & Conservation; Mechanisms for Microbial Function; Marine Biology Field Course; Microbiology Field Course
- PhD supervisor (8 current PhD students
Teaching
- Part 1 - Introductory Microbiology; Bacteriology & Virology; Zoology Field Course
- Part 2 - Infectious Diseases; Invertebrate Zoology; Marine Biology & Conservation
- Part 3 - Mechanisms for Microbial function; Research Project Supervisor
Research centres and groups
Member of Impact, Enterprise and Outreach
- Lead Academic Educator of the Open Online Course (OOC) Small & Mighty: Introduction to Microbiology available on the FutureLearn platform
- Analysis of the microbial ecology of computer keyboards
- Contributor to Cheltenham Science Festival
Research projects
- Funding from BBSRC and NERC with CASE sponsorship
- Environmental Microbiology
- Disease Transmission in Forest Ecosystems
- Bioprospecting and Biocontrol
- Synthesis of Novel Peptides for use as Antimicrobial Agents
- Member of the Microbiology Research Group
Awards and honours
Esteem Factors
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
- North Middlesex Hospital on a trial for a UV keyboard-sanitising lamp that was tested in hospital wards, also Hypotech, Genus Pharma and Bartletts Tree Experts
Professional bodies/affiliations
National Collaborators
- Prof Rob Jackson, University of Birmingham
- Prof Dawn Arnold, University of the West of England, Bristol
- Dr Charlotte Edwards-Gayle, Diamond Light Source
- Dr Richard Harrison, NIAB EMR
- Dr Richard Broughton, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
- Dr Tim Mauchline, Rothamsted Research, Wallingford
- Dr James McCullagh, University of Oxford
- Dr Gail Preston, University of Oxford
- Dr Karsten Schönrogge, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford
- Dr Malte Storm, Diamond Light Source, Didcot
- Dr David Studholme, University of Exeter
International Collaborators
- Dr Erika Cuellar, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
- Dr Klaus Stiefel, Silliman University, Philippines
- Prof Jesus Murillo, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain
- Dr Mark Silby, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
- Prof Oddur Vilhelmsson, University of Akureyri, Iceland