Dr Richard Goodman

Biography

Richard is a postdoctoral research associate at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), working on the JPIAMR-funded STRESST project (Antimicrobial Stewardship in Hospitals, Resistance Selection and Transfer in a One Health Context). In this project, he specifically analyses the intracellular transposition of antimicrobial resistance genes from bacterial plasmids found in hospital wastewater.

He has also worked on the Fleming Fund Country Grants to Pakistan and Indonesia to build capacity in genomic surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

He has expertise in the intercellular and intracellular dynamics of mobile genetic element movement and associated AMR genes. He is interested in horizontal gene transfer, mobile genetic elements and how these phenomena disseminate antimicrobial resistance throughout bacterial populations. He also works in the areas of microbial genomics, metagenomics and bioinformatics. 

Research interests

Richard’s main research interests are genomics, bioinformatics, microbiology, and molecular biology.

Selected research publications

Comparative genomics of blood and faecal E. coli and K. pneumoniae isolates from neonates with bloodstream infections in Tanzania – Journal: Communications Biology – Published: 18th November 2025

Derivatization of pBACpAK entrapment vectors for enhanced mobile genetic element transposition detection in multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli – Journal: Access Microbiology – Published: 23rd May 2025

Genome sequence of antibiotic-resistant Klebsiella quasipneumoniae FSFC0558: a novel sequence type (ST8212) – Journal: Access Microbiology – Published: 25th April 2025

Molecular mechanisms of re-emerging chloramphenicol susceptibility in extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales – Journal: Nature Communications – Published: 18th October 2024

Development of pBACpAK entrapment vector derivatives to detect intracellular transfer of mobile genetic elements within chloramphenicol resistant bacterial isolates – Journal: Journal of Microbiological Methods – Published: 8th September 2023

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