Role
Tristan Seecharran is a Laboratory Demonstrator within the Biosciences department at Nottingham Trent University.
Research areas
Tristan Seecharran is a member of the Dickins Lab within the Pathogen Research Group of NTU.
He is a third year, Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship-funded, PhD student studying population genomics of important human pathogens. His research involves defining the population structure of extra-intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC; the most common worldwide cause of hospital-associated and drug-resistant infections).
He is interested in studying how some sequence types (e.g., ST131, ST73 and ST95) have become principal causes of human disease.
He has also worked on Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, by combining genomic data with ecology to investigate the evolutionary events that underpin pathogenesis in this model bacterial species. For more information on Tristan’s research you can reach him on Twitter or LinkedIn.
External activity
Postgraduate Student Member of the Microbiology Society.
Sponsors and collaborators
Collaborators include:
Publications
Combined Analysis of Variation in Core, Accessory and Regulatory Genome Regions Provides a Super-Resolution View into the Evolution of Bacterial Populations. McNally A, Oren Y, Kelly D, Pascoe B, Dunn S, Sreecharan T, Vehkala M, Välimäki N, Prentice M, Ashour A, Avram O, Pupko T, Dobrindt U, Literak I, Guenther S, Schaufler K, Wieler L, Zhiyong Z, Sheppard S, McInerney J and Corander J, PLoS Genet, 2016, 12(9): e1006280. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1006280