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Dr David Allison B.Sc., Ph.D.

Photograph of David Allison

Senior Lecturer


 

Role

Undergraduate Admissions Tutor

Foundation Year Director

School Widening Participation Co-ordinator

Pharmaceutical Microbiology Advanced Training (PMAT) Director

Faculty Widening Participation Academic Lead

National Scientific Chair, Realising Opportunities Programme

 

Memberships of Committees and Professional Bodies

Research

David has focused his research interests on the physiology and antimicrobial resistance properties of bacterial biofilms and the infectivity and virulence properties of opportunistic lung pathogens.  In this respect his resarch crosses a number of different fields, including those of medical, industrial and ecological microbiology where he has attracted support from both private and public sector.  He maintains an active research group, has supervised successfully a number of postgraduate students, has over 100 publications in these areas and is currently an editor to the on-line journal Biofilm and to J. Basic Microbiol.  In addition, he has frequently  acted as consultant to the Pharmaceutical and healthcare Industries and has acted on behalf of the European Commission for the auditing of  sterile medical device manufacture.  He has also published in this area.

 

Teaching

First Year Undergraduate

  • Introductory Microbiology

Third Year Undergraduate

  • Pharmaceutical Microbiology (Sterilisation processing, quality assurance, aseptic/controlled enviroments, cleanroom design and operation)
  • Aseptic Dispensing

Fourth Year

  • Microbial  Disease and Immunisation (Microbial pathogenicity, host defence, mechanisms, vaccination programmes)

Postgraduate

  • PIAT Module 6 : Sterile Dosage Forms
  • PIAT Module 17 : Sterization of Medical Devices
  • Director PMAT
 

Biography

David Allison is a Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Microbiology at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester. His first degree was in microbiology at Edinburgh University (1977-1981), as were his graduate studies (1981-1984) in microbial physiology. On leaving Edinburgh in 1984 he joined Astra Zeneca Pharmaceuticals for a three year postdoctotral period, followed by a further period of postdoctoral research (1987-1989), at Aston University, Birmingham. Since his appointment at Manchester in 1990 he has focused his research interests on the physiology and antimicrobial resistance properties of bacterial biofilms and the infectivity and virulence properties of opportunistic lung pathogens. He maintains an active research group, has successfully supervised a number of postgraduate students, has over 100 publications in these areas and is currently an editor to the on line journal 'Biofilm' and to J. Basic Microbiol. In addition, he has frequently acted as consultant to the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Industries and has acted on behalf of the European Commission for the auditing of sterile medical device manufacture. He has also published in this area.

 

Collaborators and affiliated staff

Collaborators

  • Dr Roy Wogelius, Professors Caesar Merrifield and David Vaughan
    Dept of Earth Sciences
    A multi-centred collaboration to study the formation, ecology and interaction of bacterial biofilms with mineral substrates and their impact on hydraulic conductivity.

Affiliated staff

  • Dr Andrew McBain
  • Dr Roger Whitehead
    Dept of Chemistry
    David and Roger are collaborating on project investigating the antimicrobial properties of novel shikimate acid inhibitors.
 

Selected publications

2012

  • Allison, D.G. & Skyrme, J. (2012). The championing of social mobility at Manchester School of Pharmacy. The Pharmaceutical Journal, 288, 3. eScholarID:137768

2011

  • ALLISON, D.G. & McBAIN, A.J. (2011). Principles of microbial pathogenicity and epidemiology. Pharmaceutical Microbiology 8th edition. (pp. 109-120). London: Blackwell Scientific Press. eScholarID:133190
  • Allison, D.G. (2011). The Bacteria. In S. Denyer, N. Hodges & S. Gorman (Ed.), Pharmaceutical Microbiology 8th Edition. (pp. 24-43). London: Blackwell Scientific Press. eScholarID:133188
  • McBAIN, A.J. & ALLISON, D.G. (2011). Vaccination and immunization. In S. Denyer, N. Hodges & S. Gorman (Ed.), Pharmaceutical Microbiology 8th Edition. (pp. 151-165). London: Blackwell Scientific Press. eScholarID:133189
  • Allison, D.G. (2011). Bugs 'n Drugs. Presented at Cafe Scientifique. Pendle. eScholarID:133193
  • Allison, D.G. (2011). How clean are your hands. Presented at SciBar. Bollington. eScholarID:133194
  • Allison, D.G. (2011). Widening Participation and Pharmacy. Presented at Schools of Pharmacy Admissions Tutors Forum. University of Manchester. eScholarID:133195
  • Allison, D.G., McGuinness, E. (2011). How clean are your hands? Raising children's awareness of microbes. The Pharmaceutical Journal, 287, 329-329. eScholarID:133177
  • Tyson, P., Hassanzadeh, A., Mordi, M.N., Allison, D.G., Marquez, V., Barber, J.A. (2011). Erythromycoin B: conformational analysis and antibacterial activity. Medicinal Chemistry Communications, 10, COMD0025iH. eScholarID:133175 | DOI:10.1039/c0md00251h
  • Allison, D.G. (2011). Access is one thing, uptake is another. Times Higher Education, 32. eScholarID:133176

2010

  • D.G. Allison. (2010). Microbial Contamination and Spoilage. Microbial Contamination Control and Sterilization in Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices. (pp. 53-72). New Delhi: Business Horizons. eScholarID:101094
  • MOUMENE-AFIFI, S., MacPHERSON, J., ALLISON, D.G., & McBAIN, A.J. (2010). Protection of Escherichia coli by putative alarmones against acid stress. Presented at Acid stress: surviving and responding. University of Nottingham, UK: SGM. eScholarID:101103
  • ALLISON, D.G., SKYRME, J. & CROWE, M. (2010). How Manchester’s altruistic approach widens access to an MPharm degree. Pharmaceutical Journal, 285, 2. eScholarID:101091

2007

  • Gilbert P, Allison DG, Melanie Braiding, Jonathan Pratten, David Spratt, Upton M. (2007). Biofilms: coming of age. eScholarID:3d282
  • Allison DG, Moore J.E. (2007). Involve them while they're young - promoting pharmacy in primary schools. Pharm. J, 279, 234-235. eScholarID:1d16337
  • Allison DG, Sattenstall M. (2007). The influence of green fluorescent protein incorporation on bacterial physiology: a note of caution. J Appl Microbiol, 103( 2), 318-24. eScholarID:1d16336

2005

  • Brydie JR, Wogelius RA, Merrifield CM, Boult S, Gilbert P, Allison DG, Vaughan DJ. (2005). The u2M project on quantifying the effects of biofilm growth on hydraulic properties of natural porous media and on sorption equilibria: an overview. (249). eScholarID:4d135
  • Gilbert P, Allison DG, Friswell M, Barton M, McBain AJ. (2005). The mammalian microbiomics in health and disease - can we see the wood for the trees?. Biofilms: Persistence and Ubiquity [eds McBain A, allison DG, Pratten J, Spratt D, Verran J, Upton M] Bioline Press, Cardiff. eScholarID:3d848
  • Al-Bakri AG, Gilbert P, Allison DG. (2005). Influence of gentamicin and tobramycin on binary biofilm formation by co-cultures of Burkholderia cepacia and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J. Basic Microbiol, 45, 392-396. eScholarID:1d11516

2004

  • Al-Bakri A, Gilbert P, Allison DG. (2004). Immigration and emigration of Burkholderia cepacia and Pseudomonas aeruginosa between and within mixed biofilm communities. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 95, 455-463. eScholarID:1d7758 | DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2672.2004.02201.x
  • MacLehose H, Gilbert P, Allison DG. (2004). Biofilms, homoserine lactones and biocide susceptibility. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 53, 180-184. eScholarID:1d7752 | DOI:10.1093/jac/dkh090
  • O'May G, Allison DG, Gilbert P. (2004). A rapid method for the evaluation of both extrinsic and intrinsic contamination and resulting spoilage of water-in-oil emulsions. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 96, 1124-1132. eScholarID:1d7843 | DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2672.2004.02239.x

2003

  • Sufya N, Allison DG, Gilbert P. (2003). Clonal variation in maximum specific growth rate and susceptibility towards anticmicrobials. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 95, 1261-1267. eScholarID:1d7479 | DOI:10.1046/j.1365-2672.2003.02079.x

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