Research interests: bacteriology; antibiotic resistance; mobile genetic elements; transcriptomics; next-generation sequencing; Haemophilus influenzae; phylogenetics
Dr Esther Robinson is a clinical academic who gained her medical degree at the University of Oxford, along with a bachelor?s degree in Physiology. Hospital junior doctor jobs developed her interest in infection and antibiotic resistance, leading to a training programme in medical microbiology and virology, initially in the West Midlands and later in Oxford. Her DPhil thesis, with Professor Derrick Crook of the Modernising Medical Microbiology consortium in Oxford, was on horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance. She has also collaborated with work on transferable genetic elements in Clostridium difficile and multiply-resistant gram negative organisms. As a busy clinician she deals daily with the challenges of hospital-acquired infection and antibiotic resistance and this directly stimulates her research, where she is developing her interests in the genomic epidemiology of bacteria and their resistance genes, alongside an honorary consultant medical microbiologist post at the Heart of England Foundation Trust.
- 'Coleman, Paul, 'Pailing, Adam, 'Roy, Anjana, 'O?Moore, ?amonn, 'Chandan, Joht Singh, 'Lumby, Victoria, 'Newton, Paul N., 'Taylor, Anna K., 'Robinson, Esther R., 'Swindells, Jonathon, 'Dowle, Sarah, 'Gajraj, Roger, 2022. 'Implementation of novel and conventional outbreak control measures in managing COVID-19 outbreaks in a large UK prison. BMC Public Health, 22 (1)
- Quick, Joshua, Ashton, Philip, Calus, Szymon, Chatt, Carole, Gossain, Savita, Hawker, Jeremy, Nair, Satheesh, Neal, Keith, Nye, Kathy, Peters, Tansy, De Pinna, Elizabeth, Robinson, Esther R., Struthers, Keith, Webber, Mark, Catto, Andrew, Dallman, Timothy J., Hawkey, Peter, Loman, Nicholas J., 2015. Rapid draft sequencing and real-time nanopore sequencing in a hospital outbreak of Salmonella. Genome Biology, 16 (1)
- Dingle, K. E., Elliott, Bryony Clare, Robinson, Esther R., Griffiths, David, Eyre, D. W., Stoesser, N., Vaughan, A., Golubchik, Tanya, Fawley, W. N., Wilcox, M., Peto, T. E., Walker, S. A., Riley, T, Crook, Derrick, Didelot, Xavier, 2014. Evolutionary history of the clostridium difficile pathogenicity locus. Genome Biology, 6 (1), pp. 36-52
- Juhas, Mario, Dimopoulou, Ioanna, Robinson, Esther R., Elamin, Abdel, Harding, Rosalind, Hood, Derek W., Crook, Derrick, 2013. Identification of another module involved in the horizontal transfer of the Haemophilus genomic island ICEHin1056. Plasmid, 70 (2), pp. 277-283
- Robinson, Esther R., Walker, Timothy M., Pallen, Mark J., 2013. Genomics and outbreak investigation : from sequence to consequence. Genome Medicine, 5 (4)
- Robinson, Esther R., Juhas, Mario, Hood, Derek W., Crook, Derrick, 2010. Construction of a novel shuttle vector for use in Haemophilus influenzae and H. parainfluenzae. Journal of Microbiological Methods, 83 (3), pp. 330-334