Joanne Turnbull

MSc research thesis due for completion in 2022. Screening of bacterial isolates to act as non-pathogenic alternative hosts to our target pathogen. Discovery and characterisation of alternative host bacteriophages. Experimental evolution to increase the infection capacity of bacteriophages specific to the target pathogen. Contributing to the development of a prophylactic phage therapy to protect New Zealand beehives from American Foulbrood infection.