Cameron Boggon

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Research area

I am studying drug tolerance and population heterogeneity in the pathogenic bacteria Staphylococcus aureus. To do this I am developing a tool for engineering surface attached bacterial communities, which will allow us to analyse how bacterial communities respond to antibiotic challenges with single-cell precision. This work is in collaboration with Prof Annelies Zinkernagel in the Universitätsspital Zurich.

Curriculum Vitae

I was born in Scotland, in 1995. I studied Physics at the University of Edinburgh from 2013 to 2018, graduating with a Master of Physics with Honours. I did my Senior Honours project with Prof Davide Marenduzzo studying clustering dynamics of liquid-liquid phase separate droplets. My masters thesis was carried out in the lab of Prof Wilson Poon, thesis title: "How do bacteria swim when they are sick? - E. coli swimming dynamics during T4 bacteriophage infection." After graduating, I worked for a year for the environmental NGO EKOenergy, part of the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation in Helsinki, Finland. As of October 2019, I am working towards my PhD at ETH Zurich under the supervision of Prof. Lucio Isa and Dr Eleonora Secchi.