Lucy Crouch

Lucy is a glycobiologist and studies how gut microbes and pathogens use human-derived glycans as a nutrient source. Current projects include 1) looking at how infant-associated bacteria use glycans in breast milk and 2) how common human bacterial pathogens use mucins.

Lucy is a principal investigator at the Institute of Microbiology and Infection.

Lucy completed her PhD in the trans-membrane photosystems of purple bacteria in 2011. She went on to take up a post-doctoral research position into antibiotic efflux transporters at the University of Cambridge. She then moved to Newcastle University to continue as a post-doctoral research associate working on carbohydrate-active enzymes to increase efficiency of biofuel production and then into how gut microbes access their nutrients. She joined the University of Birmingham in 2020 to start her own independent research group.