Dr Charlotte Odendall is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Infectious Diseases at King’s College London. Her group studies innate immunity and bacterial pathogenesis, with a focus on mucosal inflammation and host–pathogen interactions.

Charlotte obtained her PhD at Imperial College London, where she trained in Cellular Microbiology with David Holden. She then carried out her postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, where she worked on innate immune sensing of intracellular pathogens in the lab of Jon Kagan.

Her lab is based in the School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences at King’s College London and is affiliated with the Francis Crick Institute through a university attachment. The group investigates how epithelial and immune cells detect bacterial infection, regulate inflammation, and are targeted by microbial effectors.

Charlotte’s research is funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council, and she is a member of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme.