Dr. Teresa Street

Biography

Teresa obtained her BSc in Biochemistry and her PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Bath. She joined the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography as the Departmental Lecturer in Genetics for Human Sciences in 2017. Currently, she is the Vice-Chair of the Institute of Human Sciences. Teresa began her career at Oxford as a postdoctoral scientist at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, followed by further postdoctoral work at the Department of Statistics. She is currently a senior postdoctoral scientist in the Modernising Medical Microbiology unit at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, holding her departmental lectureship concurrently. Her research interests are centered on developing new molecular methods for diagnosing infections. Using cutting-edge genome sequencing technology, her research focuses on prosthetic joint infections and gonorrhea, identifying pathogens and detecting genetic markers for antibiotic resistance in samples taken directly from patients, offering faster diagnosis times than current gold-standard methods. Teresa is involved in studies using targeted sequencing for the detection of influenza and RSV, with current work aiming to develop a rapid test for infections that can be deployed in real-time during surgery.

Research Interests