Teresa Street
Senior Postdoctoral Scientist
Research Summary
Teresa is a senior laboratory scientist within the Modernising Medical Microbiology team. Her research is centred around developing metagenomic sequencing as a tool for the diagnosis of infections. Applying a direct-from-sample approach, Teresa has focussed her previous research on prosthetic joint infections and gonorrhoea, identifying pathogens and detecting genetic markers of antimicrobial resistance. She has also been involved in studies using targeted sequencing for the detection of influenza and RSV, and her current work aims to expand metagenomic sequencing to a wider range of sample types and infections.
Teresa obtained her BSc in Biochemistry and her PhD from the University of Bath. She joined team MMM in 2009 from the Department of Statistics, having held a previous postdoctoral position at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. Teresa co-supervises a DPhil student and is also the Departmental Lecturer in Genetics at the Institute of Human Sciences, a unit of the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford.
Recent publications
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Nanopore adaptive sampling for bacterial identification from periprosthetic joint replacement tissue
Street TL. et al, (2025)
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Nanopore sequencing of influenza A and B in Oxfordshire and the United Kingdom, 2022–23
Cane J. et al, (2024), Journal of Infection, 88, 106164 - 106164
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Addressing pandemic-wide systematic errors in the SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny
Hunt M. et al, (2024)
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Target enrichment improves culture-independent detection of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and antimicrobial resistance determinants direct from clinical samples with Nanopore sequencing
Street TL. et al, (2024), Microbial Genomics, 10
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Target enrichment improves culture-independent detection ofNeisseria gonorrhoeaedirect from sample with Nanopore sequencing
Street TL. et al, (2024)