Miguel Cámara

University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Emeritus Professor of Molecular Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK.  He has many years of expertise in the study of molecular mechanisms of quorum sensing-based control of gene expression in bacteria, how it influences the behaviour of polymicrobial biofilms and their interaction with the host.  He has also been working on the identification of novel antimicrobial targets and coordinated several international antimicrobial programmes with a strong focus on quorum sensing inhibition.

Miguel Cámara completed his Biology BSc (Hons) Degree at the Complutense University in Madrid (Spain) in 1988 and his PhD at the University of Leicester in the UK in 1992. He was appointed as Lecturer at the University of Nottingham in 1996 and to full Professor in Molecular Microbiology in 2009. He was funding member and co-Director for 7 years of the National Biofilms Innovation Centre in the UK, a center with 63 UK universities and research centers and 250 companies, until December 2024.

He has supervised more than 70 PhDs and has >170 publications in peer reviewed journals (H-index 78). He is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of Nottingham and CSO of the diagnostics company MiDx.

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