Dr Kieran Bates

Kieran Bates
PhD

Lecturer in Microbiome Science

Blizard Institute
Queen Mary University of London
bateslab.uk
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Research

Microbiome, Glycobiology, Ecology and Evolution, Experimental Biology, Fungal Pathogens

Infectious Disease and Inflammation Models, Skin Models

Interests

I am interested in understanding how microbial communities assemble, persist and influence the health of their hosts. My research combines theory with wild and experimental systems to investigate microbial function through to eco-evolutionary dynamics. My group is especially interested in the role of host mucosal and epithelial glycans as both ligands for microbial colonisation and nutrient sources.

Publications

solid heart iconPublications of specific relevance to Predictive in vitro Models

2025

Ranavirus
Bates KA, Rosa GM, Garner TWJ
 
01-03-2025

2024

Incidence and characterization of polyglucosan bodies in the cerebella of montserrat orioles (Icterus oberi).
Spiro S, Pereira M, Bates KA, Jaunmuktane Z, Everest DJ, Stidworthy MF, Denk D, Núñez A et al.
Veterinary Pathology, Sage Publications 
15-08-2024
Author Correction: Chemical disinfection as a simple and reliable method to control the amphibian chytrid fungus at breeding points of endangered amphibians
Thumsová B, González-Miras E, Rubio Á, Granados I, Bates KA, Bosch J
Scientific Reports, Springer Nature vol. 14 (1) 
20-03-2024
Chemical disinfection as a simple and reliable method to control the amphibian chytrid fungus at breeding points of endangered amphibians
Thumsová B, González-Miras E, Rubio Á, Granados I, Bates KA, Bosch J
Scientific Reports, Springer Nature vol. 14 (1) 
02-03-2024

2023

Gut microbiota of the critically endangered Saiga antelope across two wild populations in a year without mass mortality
Hanski E, Khanyari M, Li J, Bates KA, Zuther S, Maiden MCJ, Kock R, Knowles SCL
Scientific Reports, Springer Nature vol. 13 (1) 
11-10-2023

2022

Environmental and Anthropogenic Factors Shape the Skin Bacterial Communities of a Semi-Arid Amphibian Species
Bates KA, Friesen J, Loyau A, Butler H, Vredenburg VT, Laufer J, Chatzinotas A, Schmeller DS
Microbial Ecology, Springer Nature vol. 86 (2), 1393-1404.  
29-11-2022
Experimental temperatures shape host microbiome diversity and composition
Li J, Bates KA, Hoang KL, Hector TE, Knowles SCL, King KC
Global Change Biology, Wiley vol. 29 (1), 41-56.  
17-10-2022
Scientists' warning of threats to mountains
Schmeller DS, Urbach D, Bates K, Catalan J, Cogălniceanu D, Fisher MC, Friesen J, Füreder L et al.
The Science of The Total Environment, Elsevier vol. 853 
07-09-2022
Rapid evolution of a novel protective symbiont into keystone taxon in Caenorhabditis elegans microbiota
Wu-Chuang A, Bates KA, Obregon D, Estrada-Peña A, King KC, Cabezas-Cruz A
Scientific Reports, Springer Nature vol. 12 (1) 
18-08-2022
Turning the tide on sex and the microbiota in aquatic animals
Bates KA, Higgins C, Neiman M, King KC
Hydrobiologia, Springer Nature vol. 850 (17), 3823-3835.  
05-05-2022
Microbiome function predicts amphibian chytridiomycosis disease dynamics
Bates KA, Sommer U, Hopkins KP, Shelton JMG, Wierzbicki C, Sergeant C, Tapley B, Michaels CJ et al.
Microbiome, Springer Nature vol. 10 (1) 
10-03-2022

2021

A globally ubiquitous symbiont can drive experimental host evolution
Bates KA, Bolton JS, King KC
Molecular Ecology, Wiley vol. 30 (15), 3882-3892.  
14-06-2021
Effects of multiple stressors on northern leopard frogs in agricultural wetlands
Marcogliese DJ, King KC, Bates KA
Parasitology, Cambridge University Press (Cup) vol. 148 (7), 827-834.  
09-03-2021

2019

Captivity and Infection by the Fungal Pathogen Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans Perturb the Amphibian Skin Microbiome
Bates KA, Shelton JMG, Mercier VL, Hopkins KP, Harrison XA, Petrovan SO, Fisher MC
Frontiers in Microbiology, Frontiers vol. 10 
23-08-2019

2018

Development and worldwide use of non-lethal, and minimal population-level impact, protocols for the isolation of amphibian chytrid fungi
Fisher MC, Ghosh P, Shelton JMG, Bates K, Brookes L, Wierzbicki C, Rosa GM, Farrer RA et al.
Scientific Reports, Springer Nature vol. 8 (1) 
17-05-2018
Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines
O'Hanlon SJ, Rieux A, Farrer RA, Rosa GM, Waldman B, Bataille A, Kosch TA, Murray KA et al.
Science, American Association For The Advancement of Science (Aaas) vol. 360 (6389), 621-627.  
11-05-2018
Amphibian chytridiomycosis outbreak dynamics are linked with host skin bacterial community structure
Bates KA, Clare FC, O’Hanlon S, Bosch J, Brookes L, Hopkins K, McLaughlin EJ, Daniel O et al.
Nature Communications, Springer Nature vol. 9 (1) 
15-02-2018