Scott Beatson

Scott Beatson is an Associate Professor and NHMRC Career Development Fellow at The University of Queensland (UQ). He specializes in bacterial pathogenomics: using whole-genome sequencing to investigate transmission, pathogenesis and antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Recent work from his group includes genomic analyses of pandrug resistant enterobacteriaceae and the multidrug resistant Escherichia coli ST131 pandemic clone. He was awarded a PhD from UQ for his work in bacterial pathogenesis in 2002 and developed his career in bacterial genomics in the United Kingdom with the support of fellowships from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 (University of Oxford) and the UK Medical Research Council (University of Birmingham). Since returning to Australia he has held fellowships from both the NHMRC and ARC and has led a successful research group in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences at UQ since 2008. He is also a member of the Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre and the Australian Centre for Ecogenomics. In 2016 he received the Frank Fenner Award from the Australian Society for Microbiology in recognition of his contribution to microbiology research in Australia. Bacteriology, Biological Sciences, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Epigenetics (incl. genome methylation and epigenomics), Genetics, Genomics, Infectious agents, Medical microbiology, Microbial genetics, Microbiology, Molecular evolution, Phylogeny and comparative analysis

[2025] Intestinal colonisation with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales and the impact of selected factors on intestinal colonisation duration: a prospective cohort study [2025] Group B Streptococcus growth in human urine is associated with asymptomatic bacteriuria rather than urinary tract infection and is unaffected by iron sequestration [2024] Evolution of the pheV-tRNA integrated genomic island in Escherichia coli [2024] The complete genome sequence of five pre-2013 Escherichia coli sequence type (ST)1193 strains reveals insights into an emerging pathogen [2024] The complete genome sequence of five pre-2013 Escherichia coli sequence type (ST)1193 strains reveals insights into an emerging pathogen. [2024] Metabolism of l-arabinose converges with virulence regulat