Catriona S Baker
Research Assistant
Research Assistant in Modernising Medical Microbiology at The University of Oxford - Optimising whole genome sequencing of pathogens to predict antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and improve diagnostics.
Previously Team Lead for The COVID-19 Infection Survey, a collaboration between The Office for National Statistics and The University of Oxford.
(Also a big fan of photography📸)
Recent publications
Evaluation of an Oxford Nanopore sequencing workflow for mycobacteria from primary MGIT culture
Preprint
Baker CS. et al, (2026)
Characterizing the performance of an antibiotic resistance prediction tool, gnomonicus, using a diverse test set of 2,663 Mycobacterium tuberculosis samples
Journal article
Westhead J. et al, (2025), Microbial Genomics, 11