Infections are caused by bacteria, viruses and fungi – what we call bugs.
We are a group of scientists working at the University of Oxford to transform how we analyse and treat infections, improving patient care.
Through this website you can find out more about our research, and even take part yourself!
Recent news
- Read about the work we’re doing to make our research more sustainableDot Nagy, one of our DPhil students, has written a great blog post about… Read more: Read about the work we’re doing to make our research more sustainable
- Freezer Challenge!We have to keep most of our biological samples at -80°C which is much… Read more: Freezer Challenge!
- Linking life expectancy to the bacteria in our gut: A final year undergraduate projectMy name is Akika Altman-Chandler, and I just graduated from the University of Oxford… Read more: Linking life expectancy to the bacteria in our gut: A final year undergraduate project
- Work experience: what have we been up to?Throughout the past three days doing work experience at MMM we’ve learnt about the… Read more: Work experience: what have we been up to?
- Green Impact Silver Award!This year, our group has achieved Silver in the Green Impact award – a… Read more: Green Impact Silver Award!
- Recycling Lab Plastics Easily the biggest source of waste in our lab is single-use plastics – pipette… Read more: Recycling Lab PlasticsÂ
- MMM at the Westgate Shopping Centre (2025)This is the third year that the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) held… Read more: MMM at the Westgate Shopping Centre (2025)
- Plant-Based Potluck In our efforts to encourage sustainable habits, the Green Team hosted our first-ever plant-based… Read more: Plant-Based PotluckÂ
- The importance of hand-washingThree of our researchers visited Mabel Prichard School in Oxford on Thursday 6 February… Read more: The importance of hand-washing
- The rise of superbugs (video)For World Antibiotic Awareness Week some of the MMM Unit created an old-skool stop… Read more: The rise of superbugs (video)
- Putting 2 and 2 together: Using long-read bacterial genome assembly for public health surveillanceWhat is the problem? Studying the genetic code of bacteria (DNA) can give us… Read more: Putting 2 and 2 together: Using long-read bacterial genome assembly for public health surveillance
- Microbes vs Medicine: A Bash the Bug Art CompetitionMethicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) fighting a punchbag representing antibiotics by a previous winner, Marni (age 9)… Read more: Microbes vs Medicine: A Bash the Bug Art Competition