For the past three years Kerry Setchfield has worked as a cell culture technician for the Optics and Photonics Research Group at the University of Nottingham providing cell and imaging support for the InLighenUs project. Prior to this, Kerry was a research technician in the School of Life Sciences working on Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) and using her experience of genetics, genomics, cell biology, biochemistry and in-vivo studies.

Between grants she helped to write the University’s School of Life Sciences 2014 REF submission. Between 2002-2005 Kerry held a post-doctoral research position at the University of Bristol investigating meningitis-causing bacteria. Kerry started her career at the Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research at Porton Down in 1998 where she carried out meningitis vaccine research and completed her PhD investigating meningitis protection by the commensal N.  lactamica.