Rate My Professor Anna Mantzouratou

Dr Anna Mantzouratou serves as Principal Academic in Human Genetics and Programme Leader for the BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science programme in the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology at Bournemouth University. She earned her BSc (Hons) in Medical Genetics from Queen Mary University of London in 2000 and her MSc in Prenatal Genetics and Foetal Medicine from University College London in 2001, followed by a PhD. Her research centres on genetic uniqueness, particularly genetic abnormalities in preimplantation embryos and their connections to fertility and infertility. She investigates mechanisms of genomic instability, including meiotic and mitotic errors leading to aneuploidy, ploidy correction in embryos, and the interplay of ancient genetic variants with modern environmental pollutants in conditions like endometriosis. Additional research encompasses bacterial genomics, such as genomic analyses of ESBL-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae in urinary tract infections, and plasmid-mediated resistance mechanisms.

Dr Mantzouratou's career includes prior roles at University College London Institute for Women’s Health and contributions to Peninsula Medical School. Key publications include 'Embryonic ploidy correction: an update on mechanisms and insights from mosaic embryo transfer' (Human Reproduction, 2026), 'Endometriosis - on the intersection of modern environmental pollutants and ancient genetic regulatory variants' (European Journal of Human Genetics, 2025), 'Genomic instability and the link to infertility: A focus on microsatellites and genomic instability syndromes' (European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 2022), 'Genomic analyses of an Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae urinary tract infection outbreak' (MicrobiologyOpen, 2024), and 'Prevalence of insertion sequence elements in plasmids relating to mgrB gene disruption in colistin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae' (MicrobiologyOpen, 2022). A Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science (FIBMS) and the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), she has led support for Poole Hospital's COVID-19 testing capabilities, delivered public lectures on personalised pathology-based healthcare and Genomics England projects, and acts as a Genetics Society ambassador. Her supervision fosters student research in genetics and biomedicine.