Jeremy Webb MSc, PhD, BSc

Jeremy Webb is Professor of Microbiology at University of Southampton, UK. He has received a series of competitive fellowship awards from The Australian Research Council, the UK Leverhulme Trust, and BBSRC for work on the physiology, antimicrobial resistance, evolution, and molecular genetics of biofilms and polymicrobial communities.
His work includes the discovery of nitric oxide as a regulator of biofilm dispersal, which is now being exploited for therapeutic applications in cystic fibrosis, including the first human clinical trial for a biofilm-targeted therapeutic. Current research also seeks to identify genes that undergo adaptive evolution during bacterial biofilm development