Dr Gemma Langridge

Biography

I am a group leader at Quadram Institute Bioscience in Norwich, working on microbes in the food chain and food safety. My research group is focused upon understanding diversity and metabolism of niche-adapted bacteria, using both long and short read sequencing to identify variation. We use metabolic phenotyping, biofilm assays, transcriptomics and computational metabolic modelling to investigate its impact upon bacterial survival and persistence.

I studied Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford and went on to a PhD at the Wellcome Sanger Institute looking at Salmonella metabolism and transposon mutagenesis. I subsequently worked as a post-doc at the Sanger and then at the University of East Anglia before moving to the Quadram to start my group in 2018.