Sally Partridge

Adjunct Associate Professor Sally Partridge is affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney and the Westmead Institute for Medical Research. Her work focuses on antibiotic resistance mechanisms in Gram-negative bacteria, particularly mobile genetic elements and integrons.

• Research Themes: Infection and Immunological Conditions
• Keywords: Bacteriology, Bioinformatics, Genetics, Microbiology, Antibiotic Resistance

Research Interests center on genomic analysis of antibiotic resistance dissemination, integron evolution, and clinical microbiology. She investigates horizontal gene transfer dynamics in pathogens like Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae, with recent work on international spread patterns of drug-resistant Shigella sonnei and structural annotation of β-lactamases.

Selected Grants include NHMRC funding for projects on plasmid dynamics in microbiomes (2017), antibiotic resistance ecology in ICUs (2016), probiotic plasmid interventions (2014), and restricted diversity in mobile gene pools (2012). Her publications span high-impact journals like Nature Communications and PNAS, with methodological contributions such as the Multiple Antibiotic Resistance Annotator (MARA) and SAND annotation system.

Collaborations extend to international teams studying carbapenemase outbreaks, plasmid sequencing approaches, and resistance prediction models. She contributes to standards in antibiotic resistance gene numbering and integron classification frameworks.