Gemma Kay studied for a BSc (Hons) in Medical Microbiology at the University of Leeds between 2002 and 2005. In 2006 she completed a Masters of Research degree in Biosciences (Infection and Immunity). Following this she undertook her PhD research at Sheffield Hallam University (2006-2010), in close collaboration with the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, she investigated the prevalence of prokaryotic and fungal organisms and antibiotic resistance determinants in the Intensive Care Unit environment to identify potential reservoirs of organisms that could cause hospital acquired infections. Gemma has also worked as the Institute of Microbiology and Infection (IMI) research technician at the University of Birmingham, carrying out technical support to IMI laboratories across a range of research-related activities. This has included working in the antimicrobials research group (ARG) to investigate the disruption of periplasmic adapter protein binding in RND efflux complexes; and the pneumococcal research group (PRG) to produce and purify the pneumococcal protein pneumolysin for evaluation as a pneumococcal vaccine. In 2013 Gemma joined the newly established Division of Microbiology and Infection at the University of Warwick as a Research Fellow in Molecular Bacteriology where she will now be involved in research projects based on high-through-put sequencing.
- Sagar, Nidhi M., Duboc, Henri, Kay, Gemma L., Alam, Mohammad T., Wicaksono, Alfian, Covington, James A., Quince, Christopher, Kokkorou, Margarita, Svolos, Vaios, Palmieri, Lola J., Gerasimidis, Konstantinos, Walters, Julian R. F., Arasaradnam, Ramesh P., 2020. The pathophysiology of bile acid diarrhoea : differences in the colonic microbiome, metabolome and bile acids. Scientific Reports, 10 (1)
- Simpson, Daniel H., Hapeshi, Alexia, Rogers, Nicola J., Brabec, Viktor, Clarkson, Guy J., Fox, David J., Hrabina, Ondrej, Kay, Gemma L., King, Andrew, Malina, Jaroslav, Millard, Andrew D., Moat, John, Roper, David I., Song, Hualong, Waterfield, Nicholas R., Scott, Peter, 2019. Metallohelices that kill Gram-negative pathogens using intracellular antimicrobial peptide pathways. Chemical Science, 10, pp. 9708-9720
- Jones, Jana, Higham, Thomas F.G., Chivall, David, Bianucci, Raffaella, Kay, Gemma L., Pallen, Mark J., Oldfield, Ron, Ugliano, Federica, Buckley, Stephen A., 2018. A prehistoric Egyptian mummy: Evidence for an ?embalming recipe' and the evolution of early formative funerary treatments. Journal of Archaeological Science, 100, pp. 191-200
- Mokrousov, Igor, Senghore, Madikay, Otu, Jacob, Witney, Adam, Gehre, Florian, Doughty, Emma L., Kay, Gemma L., Butcher, Phillip, Salako, Kayode, Kehinde, Aderemi, Onyejepu, Nneka, Idigbe, Emmanuel, Corrah, Tumani, de Jong, Bouke, Pallen, Mark J., Antonio, Martin, 2017. Whole-genome sequencing illuminates the evolution and spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Southwest Nigeria. PLoS One, 12 (9)
- Guy, Collette S., Tichauer, Esther, Kay, Gemma L., Phillips, Daniel J., Bailey, Trisha L., Harrison, James, Furze, Christopher M., Millard, Andrew D., Gibson, Matthew I., Pallen, Mark J., Fullam, Elizabeth, 2017. Identification of the anti-mycobacterial functional properties of piperidinol derivatives. British Journal of Pharmacology, 174 (14), pp. 2183-2193
- Kay, Gemma L., Sergeant, Martin J., Zhou, Zhemin, Chan, Jacqueline, Millard, Andrew D., Quick, Joshua, Szikossy, Ildikó, Pap, Ildiko´, Spigelman, Mark, Loman, Nicholas J., Achtman, Mark, Donoghue, Helen D., Pallen, Mark J., 2015. Eighteenth-century genomes show that mixed infections were common at time of peak tuberculosis in Europe. Nature Communications, 6, pp. 1-9
- Kay, Gemma L., Millard, Andrew D., Sergeant, Martin J., Midzi, Nicholas, Gwisai, Reggis, Mduluza, Takafira, Ivens, Alasdair, Nausch, Norman, Mutapi, Francisca, Pallen, Mark J., 2015. Differences in the faecal microbiome in Schistosoma haematobium infected children vs. uninfected children. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 9 (6)
- Kay, Gemma L., Sergeant, Martin J., Giuffra, Valentina, Bandiera, Pasquale, Milanese, Marco, Bramanti, Barbara, Bianucci, Raffaella, Pallen, Mark J., 2014. Recovery of a medieval Brucella melitensis genome using shotgun metagenomics. mBio, 5 (4)
- Derbyshire, H., Kay, Gemma L., Evans, K., Vaughan, C., Kavuri, U., Winstanley, T., 2009. A simple disc diffusion method for detecting AmpC and extended-spectrum -lactamases in clinical isolates of Enterobacteriaceae. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 63 (3), pp. 497-501
- Sagar, Nidhi M., Kay, Gemma L., O'Connell, N., Nwokolo, Chuka U., Bardhan, Karna Dev, Quince, Christopher, Pallen, Mark J., Arasaradnam, Ramesh P., 2016. PWE-061 Dysbiosis in patients with bile acid diarrhoea (BAD) demonstrated using 16S RNA gene sequencing. British Society of Gastroenterology, Annual General Meeting, 20?23 Jun 2016, Published in Gut, pp. A168-A168
- Quraishi, M. N., Sergeant, Martin J., Kay, Gemma L., Iqbal, Tariq, Constantinidou, Chrystala, Chan, Jacqueline, Trivedi, Palak J., Ferguson, James W., Adams, David H., Pallen, Mark J., Hirschfield, Gideon, 2014. Probing the microbiota in PSC : the gut adherent microbiota of PSC-IBD is distinct to that of IBD and controls. The 65th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases: The Liver Meeting 2014, Nov 2014, Published in Hepatology, pp. 264A-267A