Kate Bamford
About Me
I graduated from the University of Warwick in 2015 with a First class degree in Microbiology and Virology. I am particually interested in politics and Government policy, especally in the agricultural sector. I went to study the Graduate Dipomla in Law in Birmingham with this in mind, gaining a distinction. While completing this I was offered the exciting oppotunity to study a PhD, and so returned to Warwick in October 2016.
I joined the MIBTP (Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership) as an iCASE student, funded by BBSRC and AHDB Beef and Lamb. After 9 months of training, including courses in R programming, statistics, and bioinformatics, I started my project at Warwick.
Research Project
I am supervised by Professor Laura Green and Dr. Kevin Purdy, and my project is entited:
Persistence and transmission of intramammary pathogens causing acute mastitis: the role of chronic intramammary abscesses
Mastitis is an inflammation of the mammary gland typically caused by bacterial infection. It is an endemic disease in the UK, affecting up to 7% of ewes each year. Ewe health is affected by pain, loss of udder function, premature culling and sudden death, while lamb growth rates are affected by the reduction in milk yield. Mastitis has farm sustainability as well as welfare and health implications, with costs to the UK sheep industry estimated in excess of £120 million/annum.
For more information about my project, visit my project page.
Main extracurricular activities and achievements
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September 2019 – present |
Society of Applied Microbiology Early Careers committee member: Policy officer |
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June 2019 |
Three minute thesis finalist |
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May - August 2019 |
UKRI Policy Internship at Defra, London |
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December 2019 |
Associate fellow in higher education |
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May 2018 |
iSAGE Summer School Delegate and Grant winner |
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August - November 2018 |
Redrafting the SHAWG (Sheep Health and Welfare Group) report |
Conferences
| January 2020 | AHDB annual research conference | Nottingham | Oral presention |
| November 2019 | Sheep Breeders Round Table meeting | Nottingham | Poster |
| September 2019 | International meeting of Microbial Epidemiological Markers | Dubrovnik, Croatia | Poster |
| March 2019 | Society for Applied Microbiology Early Career symposium | Manchester | Oral (runner up) |
| November 2018 | Sheep Health and Welfare Group conference | Drayton | Invited delegate |
| November 2018 | AHDB annual research conference | Solihull | Poster |
| October 2018 | MedVet Pathogens | Prato, Italy | Poster and 5 minute presentation |
| May 2018 | EU project: Innovation in Sheep and Goat Production (iSAGE) Summer School | Zaragoza, Spain | Delegate and Grant winner |
| March 2018 | Society of Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine | Tallinn, Estonia | Poster |
| November 2017 | AHDB annual research conference | Stratford upon-avon | Poster |
| April 2017 | MIBTP Poster session | Leicester | Poster |
| November 2016 | AHDB annual research conference | Stratford upon-avon | Oral presentation |
Training
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March 2019 |
Science research and parliament |
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December 2019 |
Decision making and leadership |
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June 2019 |
3 Minute Thesis presentation training |
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April 2019 |
Science Communication |
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January 2019 |
Nvivo working with data |
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December 2018 |
APP PGR: Associate fellowship in higher education teaching |
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December 2018 |
Generalised linear models in R |
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January 2018 |
Longitudinal data analysis |
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June 2017 |
Teamwork in a research environment |
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October 2016 |
Data Analysis in Life Sciences |
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October 2016 |
Advanced biostatistics |
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October 2016 |
Programming in R |
Outreach and Teaching
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March 2020 |
Slice of Science Warwick outreach event: session leader |
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Academic year 2018/19 |
MIBTP advanced biostatistics, 3rd year environmental biology, 1st year microbiology, 1st year biostatistics, QuBiC (quantitative biology centre) mentor, 2nd year epidemiology (Teaching and marking) |
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June 2017/8/9 |
OCR GCSE Biology Examiner |
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June 2019 |
Evidence Week in Parliament: Meeting with Matt Western MP & SfAM |
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March 2019 |
"My career in the life sciences" talk to secondary school pupils |
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Academic year 2018/19 |
MIBTP advanced biostatistics, 3rd year clinical microbiology, 1st year intro labs, 1st year microbiology, Science 101 session lead, 1st year biostatistics, QuBiC (quantitative biology centre) mentor, 2nd year epidemiology, 1st year physiology (Teaching and marking) |
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Academic year 2017/18 |
MIBTP advanced biostatistics, 3rd year clinical microbiology, Science 101 session lead (Teaching and marking) |
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September 2017 |
New Scientist Live stand coordinator |
Kate Bamford
k dot e dot bamford at warwick dot ac dot uk
School of Life Sciences
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
