Navigating the Early Life Microbiota: The Role of Beneficial and Pathogenic Bacteria by Lindsay Hall

Speaker Bio:
Prof Lindsay Hall is the Chair of Microbiome Research at the University of Birmingham, UK, and she is also a Wellcome Investigator. Her lab’s research focus involves defining microbe/microbiota interactions during the early life developmental window. She also has a keen interest in bringing the magical world of the microbiome to life for public audiences and school children. She obtained a BSc in Microbiology from the University of Glasgow, UK, a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Cambridge, UK, and was a postdoctoral fellow at University College Cork, Ireland (APC Microbiome Institute). She returned to the UK to take up a Senior Lectureship at the University of East Anglia before moving to the Quadram Institute (both in Norwich, UK). Prior to Lindsay joining the University of Birmingham, she was Chair of Intestinal Microbiome at the Technical University of Munich in Germany.