Research
Professor Peacock is a clinical microbiologist based within the Departments of Medicine and Pathology. She is an Honorary Consultant Microbiologist for the Health Protection Agency and the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, and holds an Honorary Faculty position at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
Professor Peacock’s group focuses on the development, evaluation and introduction of high-throughput genome sequencing technologies into diagnostic and public health microbiology. Proof of principle will be achieved by a project to develop a system to track transmission of the nosocomial pathogen methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in real-time. This technology will subsequently be extended to track transmission of other important human pathogens, and the programme expanded to include genotypic susceptibility testing of slow growing pathogens. This work represents a close collaboration with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Health Protection Agency.
Publications
Harris SR, Cartwright EJP, Török ME, Holden MTG, Brown NM, Ogilvy-Stuart AL, Ellington MJ, Quail MA, Bentley SD, Parkhill J, Peacock SJ. Using Whole-Genome Sequencing to Dissect the Cause and Effect of an MRSA Outbreak. Lancet Infect Dis. 2012 In press.
Wiersinga WJ, Currie BJ, Peacock SJ. Melioidosis. New Engl J Med. 2012;367:1035-44.