RESEARCH
Research in the Langford laboratory is focussed on pathogens of man (Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria meningitidis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis) and animals (Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, Pasteurella multocida) that associate with the respiratory tract and/or cause invasive disease. Dependent on the pathogen the focus is diagnostics, mechanisms of bacterial pathogenicity, and/or antibiotic discovery.
FUNDING
Reasearch is funded by the BBSRC, Zoetis Animal Health and Meningitis Now.
Collaborators
Professor Chunlai Wang, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae vaccines diagnostics population biologyPig bacterial respiratory disease, 2017
Professor M ChambersProfessor RM La Ragione, University of Surrey, Antimicrobial peptidesVeterinary pathogensBiofilms, 2016
Prof László Fodorc, University of Veterinary Medicine, Budapest, Diagnostics of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, 2016
Prof Marcelo Gottschalk, Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire, Université de Montréal,, Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae diagnostics, 2015
Dr Anastasia Callaghan, University of Portsmouth, sRNAs, 2014
Rachel Ee Pui Lai, National University of Singapore, 2011
Dr Dan Tucker, University of Cambridge, Diagnostics, vaccines and bacterial pathogensis of veterinary pathogens, 2010
Professor Brendan Wren, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Diagnostics, vaccines and bacterial pathogensis of veterinary pathogens, 2009
Dr Oystein Angen, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae - poulation biology and diagnostics, 2004
Professor Andrew Rycroft, Royal Veterinary College, Diagnostics, vaccines and bacterial pathogensis of veterinary pathogens, 1994
Profa Denise Bazzolli, University of Viçosa, Brazil
Professor Martin Hibberd, Genome Institute Singapore
Professor Rui Zhou, State Key Laboratory of Agricultural MicrobiologyWuhan, China
Professor Liancheng lei, Jilin University, China