Clare Kirkpatrick

Clare Kirkpatrick is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark. Her research focuses on bacterial stress responses, including DNA damage, cell envelope stress, and bacteriophage attack, and their intersection with bacterial cell cycle regulation. She leads the Research Unit for Molecular Microbiology and is actively involved in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Caulobacter crescentus studies.

• PhD in Genetics from University of Cambridge (2006)
• Key research areas: Bacterial Stress Responses, Toxin-Antitoxin Systems, Bacteriophage, Cell Polarity, Antibiotic Resistance

Her recent publications explore operon regulation in antibiotic resistance (2024), sigma factor dynamics in stress response (2024), and lysogenic phage genomics (2023). She teaches courses in Fundamental Microbiology and Bacterial Genetics while participating in conferences like the EMBO Workshop on Bacterial Networks. Her work on bacteriophage in Odense Å has received significant media attention, including coverage in 13 news outlets.