Professor of Applied Microbial Genomics, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge

Kate Baker is a veterinary trained researcher working on the genomic epidemiology of enteric bacterial pathogens and their antimicrobial resistance. She studies how pathogen genome variation and evolutionary processes impacts their epidemiology and control. She has a particular interest in the dynamics of the accessory genome in bacterial populations, including antimicrobial resistance. Using a combination of microbial genomics, epidemiological approaches, and molecular microbiology, Kate and her team unpick disease processes at both patient and public health levels in both high income and lower- to middle- income nation settings in collaboration with clinicians, public health practitioners, in vivo experimentalists, and mathematical modellers. Kate also has an interest in knowledge exchange and policy and has held various external secondments (GO-Science, SEDRIC, and UKHSA).