Source: ESR
Sarah Bakker has always been someone who enjoys questioning things. Ultimately, it was this curiosity that led her into a career in science “I really liked science at school,” she says. “My favourite science subject was biology.”
Now Sarah is a Principal Technician in the Nosocomial Infections laboratory at ESR.
“I’m one of those boomerang employees,” she explains. “After graduating from university, I worked at ESR for four years in a variety of areas: Antibiotic Reference Laboratory, Nosocomial Infections Laboratory, Virology Serology Laboratory, Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, as well as the Legionella and Leptospira reference Laboratories. Then in 1998, I was lucky enough to receive an ESR study award to visit the Central Public Health Laboratory, Colindale, London for a few weeks and attend a conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was an invaluable experience and provided me with a pathway to increase my knowledge of antibiotic resistance and molecular epidemiology.”
