Organizing Committee Member
Robert Allaker
Professor of Mucocutaneous Microbiology and Director of Graduate Studies
Queen Mary University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Prof. Rob Allaker holds a BSc (Hons) in Applied Biological Sciences (1982) and a PhD (1986) in Skin & Oral Microbiology from the University of the West of England, Bristol. He joined the Royal Veterinary College in 1986 as a Wellcome Trust Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. He then joined Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) as a lecturer in 1992, was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2002, Reader in 2006 and took the title of Professor of Mucocutaneous Microbiology in 2011. He was (until 2008) secretary to the Oral Microbiology & Immunology Group, British Division of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) for 6 years. He works with a number of Oral Care companies, including GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Boots, and has acted as a London Technology Network Business Fellow to help facilitate the transfer of technology-enabled innovations from QMUL to Industry. In 2010, he was awarded the IADR/GSK Innovation in Oral Care Award. Prof. Allaker is an author on over 70 publications in peer review journals and books, and has supervised over 30 researchers with 3 student winners of national prizes. He is a section editor for the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. Rob teaches a wide range of microbiology topics at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels on a range of QMUL and external courses. He was until recently a management committee member of the Association of Basic Science Teachers in Dentistry and Society for General Microbiology Education & Training Groups.
Research Area
Skin and oral Microbiology , Immunology