Dr Johanna Rhodes BSc MSc PhD ALS

Dr Johanna Rhodes

School of Biosciences
Assistant Professor

Contact details

Email
j.rhodes@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Biosciences
黑料吃瓜网
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Rhodes’ research leverages large multi-omics datasets to investigate how pathogenic fungi emerge and evolve. She is interested in how human activity drives the evolvability of Candida and Aspergillus species, through the lens of antifungal drug resistance.

Qualifications

PhD, University of Warwick, 2012

MSc, University of Warwick, 2009

BSc, University of Warwick, 2008

Biography

After completing her PhD in host gene regulatory networks activated in response to fungal infection at the University of Warwick, Jo moved to Imperial College London to research fungal pathogens, and focus on human infection. Her research has focused on three of the four WHO Critical Priority Group fungal pathogens: Cryptococcus neoformans, Candida auris and Aspergillus fumigatus. As an assistant professor at the 黑料吃瓜网, the Rhodes Group uses a One Health approach to balance and optimise the health of humans, animals and the environment.

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Rhodes has supervised three PhD students, two of which have recently passed their viva.

Research

Current research

  • Evolvability of pathogenic fungi and the emergence of antifungal drug resistance
  • Microbiome links between inflammation and neurodegenerative diseases
  • Candida auris genomic surveillance, wastewater testing and metagenomics

Previous research

  • Population genomics of emerging antifungal resistance in the human fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus
  • Population genomics of Cryptococcus neoformans

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Delbaje, E, Pontes, L, Rhodes, J, Steenwyk, J, Lu, L, Dos Reis, TF, Rokas, A & Goldman, GH 2025, '', npj Antimicrobials and Resistance, vol. 3, no. 1, 15.

Leitao, R, Wan, IU, Chown, H, Williams, TJ, Fisher, MC & Rhodes, J 2024, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 14, no. 1, 31790.

Bottery, MJ, van Rhijn, N, Chown, H, Rhodes, JL, Celia-Sanchez, BN, Brewer, MT, Momany, M, Fisher, MC, Knight, CG & Bromley, MJ 2024, '', Nature Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, 10654.

Kappel, D, Gifford, H, Brackin, A, Abdolrasouli, A, Eyre, DW, Jeffery, K, Schlenz, S, Aanensen, DM, Brown, CS, Borman, A, Johnson, E, Holmes, A, Armstrong-James, D, Fisher, MC & Rhodes, J 2024, '', npj Antimicrobials and Resistance, vol. 2, no. 1, 26.

Rhodes, J, Jacobs, J, Dennis, EK, Manjari, SR, Banavali, NK, Marlow, R, Rokebul, MA, Chaturvedi, S & Chaturvedi, V 2024, '', Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, vol. 68, no. 10, e0091124.

Shelton, JMG, Rhodes, J, Uzzell, CB, Hemmings, S, Brackin, AP, Sewell, TR, Alghamdi, A, Dyer, PS, Fraser, M, Borman, AM, Johnson, EM, Piel, FB, Singer, AC & Fisher, MC 2023, '', Science Advances, vol. 9, no. 29, eadh8839.

Simmons, BC, Rhodes, J, Rogers, TR, Verweij, PE, Abdolrasouli, A, Schelenz, S, Hemmings, SJ, Talento, AF, Griffin, A, Mansfield, M, Sheehan, D, Bosch, T & Fisher, MC 2023, '', Journal of Fungi, vol. 9, no. 11, 1104.

Hemmings, SJ, Rhodes, JL & Fisher, MC 2023, '', Mycopathologia, vol. 188, no. 4, pp. 409-412.

Auxier, B, Debets, AJM, Stanford, FA, Rhodes, J, Becker, FM, Reyes Marquez, F, Nijland, R, Dyer, PS, Fisher, MC, van den Heuvel, J & Snelders, E 2023, '', PLoS Biology, vol. 21, no. 9, e3002278.

K膩k膩p艒 Aspergillosis Research Consortium, Winter, DJ, Weir, BS, Glare, T, Rhodes, J, Perrott, J, Fisher, MC, Stajich, JE, Digby, A, Dearden, PK & Cox, MP 2022, '', iScience, vol. 25, no. 12, 105470.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Gifford, H, Rhodes, J, Wilson, D & Farrer, R 2024, . in M Nowrousian & JE Stajich (eds), Fungal Genomics. 3 edn, The Mycota, vol. 13, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, pp. 163-188.

Comment/debate

Gifford, H, Rhodes, J & Farrer, RA 2024, '', The Lancet. Microbe, vol. 5, no. 9, 100903.

Rhodes, J 2023, '', PLoS Biology, vol. 21, no. 4, e3002090.

Review article

Hui, ST, Gifford, H & Rhodes, J 2024, '', Current Clinical Microbiology Reports, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 43-50.

Short survey

Gangneux, JP, Rhodes, JL & Papon, N 2023, '', Trends in Molecular Medicine, vol. 29, no. 11, pp. 875-877.