Professor Kenneth Forbes

Biography

Professor Ken Forbes took official retirement from the University in 2019, but continues to be closely involved with his former research group, PhD students and collaborators. He joined the University in 1989 as a postdoc in Medical Microbiology to work with Hugh Pennington and developed a research group with a primary focus on the molecular epidemiology and evolution of human bacterial pathogens.

1. Miller WG, Lopes BS, Ramjee M, and others, Forbes KJ. 2024. Campylobacter devanensis nov., Campylobacter porcellisp. nov., and Campylobacter vicugnae sp. nov., three novel Campylobacter lanienae-like species recovered from swine, small ruminants, and camelids.” Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 74:006405. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.006405.
2. Audu BJ, Norval S, Bruno L, Meenakshi R, Marion M, Forbes KJ. 2022. “Genomic diversity and antimicrobial resistance of Campylobacter from humans and livestock in Nigeria.” J Biomed Sci 29:7. doi: 10.1186/s12929-022-00786-2.
3. Perez-Reche FJ, Forbes KJ, Strachan NJC. 2021. “Importance of untested infectious individuals for interventions to suppress COVID-19.” Sci. Rep.11:20728.
4. Various authors. 2021. “A Microbiological Survey of Minced Beef at Retail in Scotland.” Food Standards Scotland. [www.foodstandards.gov.scot/downloads/FSS_Report_Retail_Mince_FINAL.pdf].
5. Mourkas E, Forbes KJ, and others, and Sheppard SK. 2020. “Agricultural intensification and the evolution of host specialism in the enteric pathogen Campylobacter jejuni.” Proc Natl Acad Sci117:11018.
6. Perez-Reche FJ, Rotariu O, Lopes BS, Forbes KJ, and Strachan NJC. 2020. “Mining whole genome sequence data to efficiently attribute individuals to source populations.” Scientific Reports 10:12124.
7. Haldenby S, Forbes KJ, Strachan NJC, and others, Winstanley C. 2020. “Increasing prevalence of a fluoroquinolone resistance mutation amongst Campylobacter jejuni isolates from four human infectious intestinal disease studies in the United Kingdom.” PLOS One doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227535.