Rate My Professor Jody Winter

Jody Winter is Principal Lecturer in Microbiology in the Department of Biosciences within the School of Science and Technology at Nottingham Trent University. She completed a PhD in parasite immunology and vaccine design at the University of Nottingham in 2004. She then spent a decade as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Nottingham, working at the interface of microbiology, molecular biology and structural biology on projects including models of protein aggregation in Parkinson’s disease, DNA replication in bacteria and archaea, and the influence of Helicobacter pylori toxins and membrane vesicles on immune responses and disease. Winter joined Nottingham Trent University in 2014 as Senior Lecturer in Microbiology and was promoted to Principal Lecturer in 2018.

She leads the Microbiology subject group within the Department of Biosciences, the Biosciences Outreach group and the interdisciplinary antimicrobial resistance research cluster at the university. Her research focuses on the emergence and spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, infection prevention, One Health principles and antimicrobial stewardship. Winter teaches on the BSc (Hons) Microbiology, BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences and BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences courses and leads the One Health module for final-year Biological Sciences students. She collaborates with Makerere University and healthcare professionals in Uganda and the UK on antimicrobial resistance and stewardship, and works with the Environment Agency on resistant bacteria in Nottinghamshire rivers. Winter is a member of the Impact and Influence Committee of the Microbiology Society and belongs to the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. She investigates creative teaching methods in microbiology, including agar art, pipetting competitions and a custom board game on antimicrobial drug development.