Colin Hughes (microbiologist)

Colin Hughes PhD ScD FLSW (born 14 March 1953) is a British microbiologist who has worked in the areas of bacterial virulence, motility and antibiotic resistance.

He studied Natural Sciences at the University of Kent, Canterbury (1971–74), where, from 1974 to 1977, he also undertook research on plasmid-bearing enterobacteria for a PhD under the supervision of Professor G.G.Meynell.

In 1985, he became Lecturer in Microbiology at the University of Cambridge Department of Pathology where he established research into the molecular biology of pathogenic bacteria.

His subsequent work focused on cellular mechanisms underlying toxin biogenesis and export,[6][7][8][9] flagellum assembly[10][11][12] and multidrug resistance.

From 1985 to 2018, Hughes taught the University's Natural, Medical and Veterinary Science students in the Department of Pathology, where he became Director of Teaching (2011–17), and he was Director of Studies in Medical Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1997 to 2017.