Susan Schlimpert is a Group Leader at the John Innes Centre. She was trained as a bacterial cell biologist at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology (Germany), where she worked on cell division and cellular differentiation in Caulobacter crescentus. She then joined the John Innes Centre with a Leopoldina Postdoctoral Scholarship to study Streptomyces cell division.
In 2019, she received a Royal Society University Fellowship to launch her independent career. Her lab uses a multi-disciplinary approach to study molecular mechanisms that underpin bacterial cell division, cellular differentiation and the regulation of antibiotic production in actinobacteria, including Streptomyces and Mycobacteria.