Associate Professor of Antimicrobial Resistance, University of Birmingham

Jessica Blair is an Associate Professor of antimicrobial resistance in the Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham. Jess graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in Biological Sciences in 2006 and the University of Birmingham with a PhD in antimicrobial resistance in 2010. Dr Blair was awarded a BBSRC David Phillip’s Fellowship in 2015 and now leads a research group in the IMI investigating various aspects of antibiotic resistance with particular focus on the molecular mechanisms of resistance in Gram negative bacteria.