Dr Róisín Boggan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Róisín is a postdoctoral research associate in Dr Ewan Harrison's lab. Her research focuses on understanding the role of human genetics in bacterial infection and colonisation.

Róisín’s is working to understand the contribution of human genetic variation in the asymptomatic carriage of Staphylococcus aureus, a common human commensal. By leveraging large and deeply phenotyped cohorts of healthy volunteers, Róisín is identifying specific human genetic variants that contribute to an individual’s susceptibility to S. aureus carriage. She will be able to apply the findings of this work in developing an understanding of the role of human genetic variation in severe infection.

Róisín completed her PhD in Dr Sarah Pickett’s lab at Newcastle University, where she worked to identify the nuclear genetic factors contributing to mitochondrial disease caused by the pathogenic m.3243A>G variant in mitochondrial DNA.

My timeline

• Started postdoctoral research associateship at Wellcome Sanger Institute and University of Cambridge

• Postdoctoral Research Associate at Newcastle University

• PhD at Newcastle University, UK