Rate My Professor Judith Bateup

Dr Judith Bateup is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology within the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Otago, a position she has held since her appointment in 1994. She earned her BSc (Hons) and PhD from the University of Otago. Her doctoral research, detailed in her 1994 thesis titled "The production of bile salt hydrolase by Lactobacillus species," laid the foundation for her subsequent investigations into the microbiology of the gastrointestinal tract. Bateup's research specializations include the study of lactobacilli in the normal microflora of animal species, the production of the enzyme bile salt hydrolase and its effects on bacterial growth, and the application of molecular techniques such as ribotyping to examine lactobacilli in the gastrointestinal tract of swine. Key publications from her research career encompass "Influence of Different Functional Elements of Plasmid pGT232 on Maintenance of Recombinant Plasmids in Lactobacillus reuteri Populations In Vitro and In Vivo" published in Applied & Environmental Microbiology in 1999, "Molecular analysis of the composition of Lactobacillus populations inhabiting the stomach and caecum of pigs" in Microbial Ecology in Health & Disease in 1998, and "Effect of sodium taurocholate on the in vitro growth of lactobacilli" in Microbial Ecology in 1997.