Dr Bridget Bannerman specialises in translational science, cheminformatics as well as in evolution and theoretical systems biology. She has successfully developed predictive models to support drug discovery initiatives towards infections caused by various protists and mycobacteria and most recently the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Other projects she has been involved in include clinical trials at the Cambridge University Hospitals and the UK Medical Research Council in The Gambia to heading capacity building and gender streaming initiatives at the Science Resources Africa programme. She has widespread collaborations at leading institutions in the USA, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Sweden, France and Brazil and partners with international organisations including UNESCO, WHO and Schlumberger.
Publications
Bannerman, B. P, Jorge Júlvez, Alexandru Oarga, Tom L Blundell, Pablo Moreno, and R Andres Floto. ‘Integrated Human/SARS-CoV-2 Metabolic Models Present Novel Treatment Strategies against COVID-19’. Life Science Alliance 4, no. 10 (1 October 2021): e202000954. https://doi.org/10.26508/lsa.202000954.
Bryant JM, Brown KP, Burbaud S, Everall I, Belardinelli JM, Rodriguez-Rincon D, Grogono DM, Peterson CM, Verma D, Evans IE, Ruis C, Weimann A, Arora D, Malhotra S, Bannerman B, Passemar C, Templeton K, MacGregor G, Jiwa K, Fisher AJ, Blundell TL, Ordway DJ, Jackson M, Parkhill J, Floto RA. Stepwise pathogenic evolution of Mycobacterium abscessus. Science. 2021 Apr 30;372(6541):eabb8699. doi: 10.1126/science. abb8699. PMID: 33926925.
Londoño PA, Banholzer N, Bannerman BP, Kramer S. Is mRNA decapping by ApaH like phosphatases present in Eukaryotes beyond the Kinetoplastida. 2021: BMC Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1186/s12862-021-01858-x.
Beaudoin CA, Jamasb AR, Alsulami AF, Copoiu L, van Tonder AJ, Hala S, Bannerman BP et al. Predicted structural mimicry of spike receptor-binding motifs from highly pathogenic human coronaviruses. 2021 July 2 Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2021.06.041
Alsulami AF, Thomas SE, Jamasb AR, Beaudoin CA, Moghul I, Bannerman BP, Copoiu L, Vedithi SC, Torres P, Blundell TL. SARS-CoV-2 3D database: understanding the coronavirus proteome and evaluating possible drug targets. Brief Bioinform. 2021 Mar 22;22(2):769-780. doi: 10.1093/bib/bbaa404. PMID: 33416848; PMCID: PMC7929435.
Oarga A, Bannerman BP, Júlvez J. Growth Dependent Computation of Chokepoints in Metabolic Networks. 2020 In book: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-60327-4_6.
