Home| Professor of Clinical Microbiology |
Contact details:
| Tel: | +44 20 7882 8167 |
| Fax: | +44 20 7882 2181 |
| Email: | a.m.sefton@qmul.ac.uk |
| Address: | Centre for Immunology and Infectious Disease, |
Biography
Armine Sefton qualified from the London Hospital Medical College in 1980 and obtained her MD in 1993. She was appointed as Senior Lecture in Medical Microbiology in1992 and became Professor of Clinical Microbiology in 2004. She is on the Specialist Medical Register for both Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease. She has had a long-term interest in teaching and training and has been course organiser of the MSc in Clinical Microbiology at Barts and the London since 1992. She is also responsible for the Undergraduate “Infection” training in the Medical School.
At a national level, Professor Sefton is currently chair of the Microbiology Board of Examiners for the Royal College of Pathologists and also sits on their College Advisory and Training Team in Microbiology, their Speciality Advisory Committee in Microbiology and the Joint Royal College of Physicians /RCPath Joint Training Committee in Infection and Tropical Medicine. In addition to her RCPath work she sits on the Executive Committee of the Association of Medical Microbiologists, the Council of the Pathology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Life Sciences Taskforce and the UK Advisory Committee for Dangerous Pathogens. She also organises Topics in Infection, one of the largest UK infection meetings, each year.Professor Sefton’s research interests include antimicrobials and antimicrobial resistance, translational research and dangerous pathogens.
Key Publications
• Rajakaruna L, Hallas G, Molenaar L, Dare D, Sutton H, Encheva V, Culak R, Innes I, Ball G, Sefton AM, Eydmann M, Kearns AM, Shah HN. (2009) High throughput identification of clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus using MALDI-TOF-MS of intact cells. Infect Genet Evol. Jul;9(4):507-13.
• Benedetti P, Pellizzer G, Furlan F, Nicolin R, Rassu M, Sefton A. (2008). Staphylococcus caprae meningitis following intraspinal device infection. J Med Microbiol. Jul;57(Pt 7):904-6.
• Oxford JS, Lambkin R, Elliot A, Daniels R, Sefton A, Gill D. (2006)Scientific lessons from the first influenza pandemic of the 20th century. Vaccine. Nov 10;24(44-46):6742-6.
• Oxford JS, Lambkin R, Sefton A, Daniels R, Elliot A, Brown R, Gill D (2005). A hypothesis: the conjunction of soldiers, gas, pigs, ducks, geese and horses in Northern France during the Great War provided the conditions for the emergence of the "Spanish" influenza pandemic of 1918-1919. Vaccine Jan 4; 23(7):940-5.
• Acord J, Maskell J, Sefton A (2005). A rapid microplate method for quantifying inhibition of bacterial adhesion to eukaryotic cells. J Microbiol Methods. Jan; 60(1):55-62.
• Steward J, Lever MS, Simpson AJ, Sefton AM, Brooks TJ (2004). Post-exposure prophylaxis of systemic anthrax in mice and treatment with fluoroquinolones. J Antimicrob Chemother. Jul; 54(1):95-9.
