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Research interests
Research key words
Bacterial population genomics, evolutionary biology, molecular epidemiology, transmission, antibiotic resistance, one-health, wastewater microbiology, metagenomics, bioinformatics, human and animal bacterial pathogens, aquaculture.
My research career has focused on the evolution, population genomics and molecular epidemiology of a broad range of bacterial pathogens of humans and animals.
I have worked on the implementation of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) for molecular epidemiology and evolution of human pathogens, with a focus on Staphylococcus aureus and Klebsiella pneumoniae. I also have an interest in animal pathogens, and current project focus the “one health” perspective on antibiotic resistance. I was co-ordinator of a JPI-AMR consortium (SpARK) focused on the transmission of antibiotic resistant Klebsiella spp. in the environment in Northern Italy, was Co-I on the EPSRC (ReNEW) consortium working on environmental AMR in south Africa, and currently co-I on MRC (GCRF-AMR) consortium OH-DART focusing on AMR in Thailand.
I was awarded the Zoological Society of London Scientific Medal in 2010, and am an ISI highly cited researcher for 2015.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Fungal Genomics and Antagonistic Community Interactions
Feil, E. (PI) & Gibbon, M. (Researcher CoI)
1/03/25 → 29/02/28
Project: Research council
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The role of plasmid fusion in the evolution of pathogenic bacteria
Feil, E. (PI)
31/03/24 → 30/09/26
Project: Research council
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Tools for the Epidemiology of AMR Plasmids, One-Health Transmission and Surveillance
Feil, E. (PI)
13/02/23 → 12/08/24
Project: Research council
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UKRI GCRF/Newton Fund : Building an Early Warning System for community-wide infectious disease spread: SARS-CoV-2 tracking in Africa via environment fingerprinting- COVID-19
Kasprzyk-Hordern, B. (PI), Faraway, J. (CoI), Feil, E. (CoI), Smith, T. (CoI), Ehrhardt, B. (Researcher) & Gibbon, M. (Researcher)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
14/08/20 → 31/03/22
Project: Research council
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EDGE
Kasprzyk-Hordern, B. (PI), Adams, B. (CoI), Barnett, J. (CoI), Di Lorenzo, M. (CoI), Estrela, P. (CoI), Faraway, J. (CoI), Feil, E. (CoI), Kjeldsen, T. (CoI), Metcalfe, B. (CoI), Smith, T. (CoI), Stanton Fraser, D. (CoI) & Wilson, P. (CoI)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/05/20 → 31/10/21
Project: Research council
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Convergence and global molecular epidemiology of Klebsiella pneumoniae plasmids harbouring the iuc3 virulence locus: a population genomic analysis
Gibbon, M., Couto, N., Cozens, K., Habib, S., Cowley, L., Aanensen, D. M., Corander, J., Thorpe, H. A., Hetland, M. A. K., Sassera, D., Merla, C., Corbella, M., Ferrari, C., Turner, K. M. E., Sirikanchana, K., Dulyayangkul, P., Charoenlap, N., Thamlikitkul, V., Avison, M. B. & Feil, E., 6 Jan 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The Lancet Microbe. 101236.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A full-length 16S survey using Nanopore sequencing to uncover the bacterial microbiome in Ixodes ricinus ticks from a single UK woodland, collected across three springs (2019-2021)
White, M. L., Crook, J. M., Hansford, K. M., Carter, D. P., Elmore, M. J., Johnston, C., Gandy, S., Lewandowski, K., Vaux, A., Osman, K. L., Vipond, R., Medlock, J. M., Feil, E. J. & Pullan, S. T., 31 Jul 2025, In: Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases. 16, 4, 102506.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Antimicrobial effects, and selection for AMR by non-antibiotic drugs in a wastewater bacterial community
Hayes, A., Zhang, L., Feil, E., Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., Snape, J., Gaze, W. H. & Murray, A. K., 31 May 2025, In: Environment International. 199, 109490.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Antimicrobial risk assessment–Aggregating aquatic chemical and resistome emissions
Bakos, V., Lóránt, B., Murray, A. K., Feil, E. J., Gaze, W. H. & Plósz, B. G., 1 Mar 2025, In: Water Research. 271, 122929.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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A qualitative evaluation of older people’s perceptions towards optimal diet management in the context of antimicrobial resistance
Flintham, L., Dack, C., Koumanov, F., Feil, E. & Ainsworth, B., 31 Dec 2025, In: BMC Public Health. 25, 1, 4060.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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