Professor Kenneth Forbes

Professor Kenneth Forbes
Professor Kenneth Forbes
Professor Kenneth Forbes

Emeritus Professor

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

  1. Dzianach PA, Perez-Reche FJ, Strachan N, Forbes KJ, Dykes G (2023) “The use of interdisciplinary approaches to understand the biology of Campylobacter jejuni.” Microorganisms 10, 2498. doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10122498
  2. Perez-Reche FJ, Taylor N, McGuigan C, Conaglen P, Forbes KJ, Strachan N, Honhold N (2021) “Estimated Dissemination Ratio: A Practical Alternative to the Reproduction Number for Infectious Diseases.” Frontiers in Public Health 9:941. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.675065
  3. Pérez-Reche FJ, Forbes KJ, Strachan N (2021) “Importance of untested infectious individuals for interventions to suppress COVID-19”. Scientific Reports 11:20728.
  4. Mourkas E, …, Forbes KJ, …, Sheppard S (2020) “Agricultural intensification and the evolution of host specialism in the enteric pathogen Campylobacter jejuni. PNAS 117:11018.
  5. Perez-Reche FJ, Rotariu O, Lopes B, Forbes KJ, Strachan N (2020) “Mining whole genome sequence data to efficiently attribute individuals to source populations”. Scientific Reports 10:12124.
  6. Rushton S, … , Forbes KJ, …, O'Brien S (2019) “Climate, human behaviour or environment: individual-based modelling of Campylobacter seasonality and strategies to reduce disease burden. Journal of translational medicine. 17: 34
  7. Merget B, Forbes KJ, Brennan F, McAteer S, Shepherd T, Strachan N, Holden N (2019) “The influence of plant species, tissue type and temperature on the capacity of Shigatoxigenic Escherichia coli to colonise, grow and internalise into plants.” Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 85, 11, 16 p., e00123-19
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