Dr Mohamed El Mohtadi
Senior Lecturer in Microbiology
Biology
Profile
Biography
I joined Edge Hill University in 2020 as Lecturer in Microbiology. In 2019, I completed my PhD in Life Science from Manchester Metropolitan University, which investigated the effect of age-related decline in estrogen levels on host-pathogen interactions using in vitro and ex vivo models of the inflammatory phase of wound repair. Immediately after my PhD, I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Manchester Metropolitan University. In 2020, I secured an BBSRC-funded FTMA Fellowship in collaboration with the 5D Health Protection Group, Liverpool. As a Research Fellow, my research focused on investigating strategies that stimulate host-pathogen interactions in wound biofilms using Poloxamer Surfactants.
Research interests
My research mainly focuses on interrogating host-pathogen dynamics and developing novel strategies to promote stimulation of the innate host response to bacterial infection. I currently work on investigating the effect of different molecules including sex-steroid hormones on the ability of innate immune cells such as macrophages and neutrophils to eradicate bacteria through phagocytosis.
Teaching
In 2020, I completed a PGCE in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
I am currently teaching on the following modules:
- Introduction to Cell Biology
- Biology in Practice
- Immunology and Infectious Diseases
- Research Methods in Biology
- Medical Microbiology
- Research DissertationÂ
I am also the programme leader of:
- BSc (Hons) Biology
- BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science_AIBS
- BSC (Hons) Biotechnology_AIBS
- Ten-Year Analysis of Bacterial Colonisation and Outcomes of Major Burn Patients with a Focus on Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Estrogen deficiency – a central paradigm in age-related impaired healing?
- Molybdenum Disulfide Surfaces to Reduce Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Formation
- Antimicrobial activity of Ti-ZrN/Ag coatings for use in biomaterial applications
- The Effect of C-Reactive Protein Isoforms on Nitric Oxide Production by U937 Monocytes/Macrophages