Bernadette qualified as a clinician in 2006, and started specialty training in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology as an Academic Clinical Fellow in 2009. As part of this scheme she spent 12 months working with the MMM group from August 2010, then returned in November 2013 to begin DPhil studies as a Wellcome Trust Clinical Training Fellow.

Bernadette’s work investigates the role that bacterial genetics play in the variation of virulence in Staphylococcus aureus.