Jennifer Kerr

Background

About Jennifer Kerr

My research scholarship focuses primarily on a growing need to create and characterize new, non-invasive antimicrobial strategies and to design practices that reduce antimicrobial resistance. My research is unified under a core set of aims: 1) address the need for new and minimally invasive approaches to manage microbial infections 2) characterize new non-invasive products for their antimicrobial properties 3) assess the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance genes and 4) to determine the link between observed changes seen in microbiome communities during disruption events. Despite advances in prevention and treatment, microbial infections continue to disproportionately affect low income, children, the working poor, and the elderly, significantly impacting quality of life. These projects aim to address various worldwide health crises including: access to treatment and antibiotic resistance. This work is possible due to collaboration with local, national, and international science partners.