Academic PI

Email: emma.caraher@tudublin.ie

Tel: +353 1 220 7897

Lecturer at the Department of Applied Science, TU Dublin, Tallaght campus; 2014- present. She completed her PhD in 1998 in University College Dublin under the supervision of Dr Philip Newsholme. Following this she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) and Health Canada, investigating the dietary effects of food on pancreatic beta cells and gut inflammation. Upon returning to Ireland, she took up a position with Prof Dermot Kelleher and Dr Ross McManus, (TCD & St James Hospital) investigating promoter polymorphisms in the IKBL gene that is associated with Coeliac Disease. She joined TU Dublin (formerly IT Tallaght) in 2003 as a postdoctoral researcher examining the mechanisms of biofilm formation and development and the implications of biofilms for CF patients. In 2008 she secured a SFI funded Stokes Lectureship enabling her to continue investigating the virulence of bacterial CF pathogens, in particular antibiotic resistance mechanisms of bacterial biofilms. In TU Dublin, she has supervised 6 PhD and MSc students to completion.

Key research interests: Microbial biofilms, antimicrobial resistance mechanisms, host pathogen interactions, alternative antimicrobial therapies,

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