Eric S. Donkor is a Professor of Bacteriology and Global Health and Head of the Department of Medical Microbiology at the University of Ghana Medical School. He holds a PhD in Medical Microbiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a PhD in Public Health from the University of Iceland. He undertook postdoctoral studies in Microbial Genomics at the University of Cambridge. He was awarded Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath) in Medical Microbiology by the Royal College of Pathologists, U.K., in 2022. His research interests include the dynamics of bacterial colonization and infection in at-risk populations, the evolution of antibiotic resistance, pneumococcal vaccinology and epidemiology, and food safety.
Richard A Stabler is an associate professor in molecular bacteriology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a co-founder and co-director of the LSHTM Antimicrobial Resistance Centre. He undertook his Ph.D. at the University of London while working as a research assistant at St Bartholomew's Hospital and then LSHTM. After completing his Ph.D., he took a postdoc position at the Bacterial Microarray Group at St. Georges Hospital. He was involved in design, construction, experimental design, application, and data analysis on several bacterial projects. Then, he returned
to LSHTM for his second postdoc position, which was primarily to design a microarray that could be used to monitor the gene flux of virulence factors. His research interests include clostridium difficile: molecular epidemiology and the emergence of hypervirulent isolates; Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus areus: molecular epidemiology and drug resistance; campylobacter jejuni: molecular epidemiology and identification of source-specific markers; the development of drug resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii; and the development of drug resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoea.
