Developing a national capacity for adjunctive phage therapy to treat antibiotic-resistant respiratory infections through Citizen Science. (Ref: 4214)

Phage therapy promises the next generation of targeted antimicrobials to answer the threat of antimicrobial resistance. Phages are predators of bacteria which can be isolated from the environment and combined with antibiotics to re-sensitise resistant bacteria. The student will use high throughput liquid handling and citizen science to isolate phages targeting pathogens associated with respiratory disease and develop a Citizen Phage Library for novel therapeutics.