Claire S. Laxton, PhD.

Postdoctoral Associate in the Iwasaki Lab

Publications and Posters


The potential of saliva as an accessible and sensitive sample type for the detection of respiratory pathogens and host immunity


Claire S Laxton PhD*, Chikondi Peno PhD *, Anne M Hahn PhD, Orchid M Allicock PhD, Stephanie Perniciaro PhD, Anne L Wyllie PhD

The Lancet Microbe, vol. 4(10), 2023, pp. e837-e850


Examining the role of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa autotransporter AaaA in a synthetic chronic wound biofilm


Claire S Laxton, Ana da Silva, Robert Markus, Jack C Leo, Jeni C Luckett, Stephan Heeb, Kim R Hardie

EuroBioFilms, 2022 Aug


Surface-Tethered Planar Membranes Containing the β-Barrel Assembly Machinery: a platform for Investigating Bacterial Outer Membrane Protein Folding.


S. Hall, L. Clifton, P. Sridhar, D. J. Hardy, P. Wotherspoon, Jack Wright, James Whitehouse, Nadisha Gamage, Claire S. Laxton, Caitlin E Hatton, G. Hughes, M. Jeeves, T. Knowles

Biophysical Journal, 2021


Evidence for phospholipid export from the bacterial inner membrane by the Mla ABC transport system


G. Hughes, S. Hall, Claire S. Laxton, P. Sridhar, Amirul H. Mahadi, Caitlin E Hatton, T. Piggot, P. Wotherspoon, Aneika C. Leney, D. Ward, Mohammed Jamshad, Vaclav Spana, I. Cadby, C. Harding, G. Isom, J. Bryant, R. J. Parr, Yasin Yakub, M. Jeeves, D. Huber, I. Henderson, L. Clifton, A. Lovering, T. Knowles

Nature Microbiology, 2019


MRes Thesis: Antimicrobials and antimicrobial resistance


Claire S. Laxton

University of Nottingham, http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/55199, 2018


Isolation of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Multidrug-resistant Elizabethkingia meningoseptica From Neonates Within Minutes of Birth.


B. Kwambana-Adams, Claire S. Laxton, Ebenezer Foster-Nyarko, G. Weinstock, M. Antonio

The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2017