Shan Goh is an Associate Professor in Research in the School of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences at University of Hertfordshire. She is a molecular microbiologist and her research centres on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) transmission in, and control of, One Health pathogens, particularly Clostridioides difficile and Staphylococcus aureus. Her work spans different sectors and disciplines with the aim of developing phages for use as antibacterial agents as well as investigating their ability to influence bacterial pathogenesis.

What are you working on as part of the Hub?

Developing methodology to culture viable microbes and extract nucleic acid of microbes from bioaerosols for the purposes of microbial detection, isolation, identification, quantification, metagenomics, and downstream functional assays, e.g. microbial interactions within bioaerosols.  

What is exciting you the most about your current research? 

The multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches that will seriously advance our understanding of microbial dissemination through bioaerosols. Creating a new generation of highly skilled researchers who will have a holistic mindset to tackling challenges in biodetection and one health. 

What difference do you hope your research will make?

Targeted applications of different bioaerosol detection technologies to achieve optimal readouts using streamlined microbiology and/or molecular biology workflows that are user-friendly and environmentally sustainable.

What are you most proud of in your research career?

Connecting people with diverse expertise towards a common research goal. I led several projects funded by the Food Safety Research Network, which involved bringing together people from academia, government, industry, and the third sector to work on impactful and highly translation research projects.