Callum Clark is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow within the lab of Professor Joan Geoghegan. His research career has focused on finding alternative ways to treat bacterial infections, through the discovery and development of new antimicrobial therapies. His PhD work, at the University of Nottingham with Professor Liz Sockett FRS involved the characterisation of the host immune response to the predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus, with the aim of elucidating the barriers to implementing Bdellovibrio as a novel antimicrobial intervention for the treatment of bacterial infection.
As a postdoctoral researcher, Dr Clark currently studies how acetic acid can be incorporated into novel dressings, with the aim of reducing colonisation by the common burn wound pathogens Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa and reducing burn wound infection and morbidity within a clinical setting.
Dr Clark also actively researches how Cell Wall Anchor Proteins contribute to virulence, infection and Staphylococcal pathogenesis.