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Dr Apoorva Bhatt PhD, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)

School of Biosciences
Associate Professor in Molecular Microbiology
Program Director, MSc Microbiology and Infection

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0)121 41 45893
Fax: +44 (0)121 41 45925
Email: a.bhatt@bham.ac.uk

Address: N108, School of Biosciences
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr.Bhatt leads a research group working on the molecular mechanisms of how pathogenic mycobacteria build their lipidic cell envelope. He is also the Program Lead for the MSc Microbiology and Infection course.

Qualifications

PhD (Bacterial Genetics)
BSc and MSc (Microbiology)

Biography

Dr. Apoorva Bhatt did his PhD at the John Innes Centre in Streptomyces and mycobacterial genetics. He subsequently worked at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge and then at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York before heading his own research group at the School of Biosciences, University 麻豆精选.

Teaching

Dr.Bhatt contributes to teaching for undergraduate as well a postgraduate taught courses

Postgraduate supervision

Dr.Bhatt’s supervises PhD students, and project students for MSc and MRes courses. For the PhD program, home students may apply through the annual MIBTP call for studentships. International students are also eligible to apply for the same, and for Darwin Trust of Edinburgh studentships. Please find more details here:

/schools/biosciences/courses/postgraduate/phd

Research

Dr.Bhatt’s research interests include studying pathogenic mycobacteria and how they cause disease with a particular focus on Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), with a focus on mechanisms and regulation of cell wall biogenesis, and mycobacterial biofilms.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Cui, Y, Lanne, A, Peng, X, Browne, E, Bhatt, A, Coltman, NJ, Craven, P, Cox, LR, Cundy, NJ, Dale, K, Feula, A, Frampton, J, Fung, M, Morton, M, Goff, A, Salih, M, Lang, X, Li, X, Moon, C, Pascoe, J, Portman, V, Press, C, Schulz-Utermoehl, T, Lee, S, Tortorella, MD, Tu, Z, Underwood, ZE, Wang, C, Yoshizawa, A, Zhang, T, Waddell, SJ, Bacon, J, Alderwick, L, Fossey, JS & Neagoie, C 2024, '', Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 2529-2548.

Cooper, C, Peterson, EJR, Bailo, R, Pan, M, Singh, A, Moynihan, P, Nakaya, M, Fujiwara, N, Baliga, N & Bhatt, A 2022, '', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 119, no. 8, e2111059119.

Bailo, R, Radhakrishnan, A, Singh, A, Nakaya, M, Fujiwara, N & Bhatt, A 2022, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 12, no. 1, 6943.

Karlikowska, M, Singh, A, Bhatt, A, Ott, S, Bottrill, AR, Besra, GS & Fullam, E 2021, '', The Cell Surface, vol. 7, 100052.

Hariharan, VN, Yadav, R, Thakur, C, Singh, A, Gopinathan, R, Singh, DP, Sankhe, G, Malhotra, V, Chandra, N, Bhatt, A & Saini, DK 2021, '', FASEB Journal, vol. 35, no. 4, e21475, pp. e21475.

Pouget, M, Coussens, AK, Ruggiero, A, Koch, A, Thomas, J, Besra, GS, Wilkinson, RJ, Bhatt, A, Pollakis, G & Paxton, WA 2021, '', International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol. 22, no. 4, 1945, pp. 1-21.

Guan, Q, Garbati, M, Mfarrej, S, AlMutairi, T, Laval, T, Singh, A, Fagbo, S, Smyth, A, Browne, JA, urRahman, MA, Alruwaili, A, Hoosen, A, Meehan, CJ, Nakajima, C, Suzuki, Y, Demangel, C, Bhatt, A, Gordon, SV, AlAsmari, F & Pain, A 2021, '', NAR genomics and bioinformatics, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. lqab070.

Borah, K, Mendum, TA, Hawkins, ND, Ward, JL, Beale, MH, Larrouy-Maumus, G, Bhatt, A, Moulin, M, Haertlein, M, Strohmeier, G, Pichler, H, Forsyth, VT, Noack, S, Goulding, CW, McFadden, J & Beste, DJV 2021, '', Molecular Systems Biology, vol. 17, no. 5, e10280, pp. e10280.

Dokic, A, Peterson, E, Arrieta-Ortiz, ML, Pan, M, Di Maio, A, Baliga, N & Bhatt, A 2021, '', The Cell Surface, vol. 7, 100051.

Moolla, N, Bailo, R, Marshall, R, Bavro, VN & Bhatt, A 2021, '', The Cell Surface, vol. 7, 100062.

Pickford, H, Alcock, E, Singh, A, Kelemen, G & Bhatt, A 2020, '', Microbiology, vol. 2020, no. 9, 000952, pp. 817-825.

Vega-Dominguez, P, Peterson, E, Pan, M, Di Maio, A, Singh, S, Umapathy, S, Saini, DK, Baliga, N & Bhatt, A 2020, '', The Cell Surface, vol. 6, 100043.

Yamada, H, Chikamatsu, K, Aono, A, Murata, K, Miyazaki, N, Kayama, Y, Bhatt, A, Fujiwara, N, Maeda, S & Mitarai, S 2020, '', Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 11, pp. 562395.

Sousa, J, C谩, B, Maceiras, AR, Sim玫es-Costa, L, Fonseca, KL, Fernandes, AI, Ramos, A, Carvalho, T, Barros, L, Magalh茫es, C, Chiner-Oms, 脕, Machado, H, Veiga, MI, Singh, A, Pereira, R, Amorim, A, Vieira, J, Vieira, CP, Bhatt, A, Rodrigues, F, Rodrigues, PNS, Gagneux, S, Castro, AG, Guimar茫es, JT, Bastos, HN, Os贸rio, NS, Comas, I & Saraiva, M 2020, '', Nature Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, 1949, pp. 1949.

Panchal, V, Jatana, N, Malik, A, Taneja, B, Pal, R, Bhatt, A, Besra, GS, Thukral, L, Chaudhary, S & Rao, V 2019, '', FASEB BioAdvances, vol. 1, no. 5, pp. 306-319.