Dearbháile Morris is Personal Professor of Antimicrobial Resistance and One Health, and Head of the Discipline of Bacteriology at the School of Medicine, University of Galway. Dearbháile graduated from DCU with a B.SC. in Biotechnology in 1997 and went on to complete a Ph.D. in Bacteriology at NUI Galway in 2002. Dearbháile gained postdoctoral experience at The Childrens University Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin before returning to take up a lecturer post at the Discipline of Bacteriology, NUI Galway in 2004. Dearbháile is Director of the Ryan Institute Centre for One Health at University of Galway, and established the Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbial Ecology Group in 2010. Dearbháiles research group works closely with national and international research groups focusing on antimicrobial resistance mechanisms and epidemiology, food and water borne pathogens and other contaminants, and the wider societal impact of infection. 

Antimicrobial resistance mechanisms and molecular epidemiology, Water and food borne pathogens, emerging contaminants (e.g. nanomaterials), the wider societal impacts of infection and One Health