During my current post, I have taken on a full role in all areas of the School’s activity. I have presented research internationally and coordinated submission of a European COST Action proposal.  Through building upon our collaborative links with other institutes, UEL now has collaborative roles with projects in Tanzania, Kazakhstan and Kenya, with further work planned in Ethiopia. It is anticipated that this will translate into peer-reviewed publications in the forthcoming years.  Attempts to gain research funding are beginning to reach fruition that will enable creation of new research posts to build and enhance a research base. 

In teaching, I have taken an active role teaching on various modules to different undergraduate and post-graduate level students.  I am module leader for three modules giving me experience in organizing timetables, curriculum content and ensuring that delivery is constructively aligned. Furthermore, I am programme leader for our professional doctorate students with responsibility for adapting this course to embrace the diverse requirements of our candidates.

• Programme Leader for Professional Doctorates;
• Module leader for BS2024; BS3023; BSM009

Since being appointed in January 2007 as a senior lecturer and subsequently a reader in the School of Health, Sport and Bioscience at UEL, I have taken a full role in all areas of Schools activities. I have promoted the school’s research, particularly on an International level through leading a COST action proposal involving 20 different countries and many major medical and veterinary institutes with renowned research profiles. I have further enhanced our academic standing through invitation to join the new editorial team for Clinical Microbiology and Infection, the journal for the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.

Research is progressing on several bacterial pathogens, particularly relapsing fever Borrelia; Brucella; Coxiella burnetii; Leptospira and Rickettsia. Much of this work is applied in nature, particularly focussed upon improving our diagnostics, microbial typing and understanding the epidemiology of these infections. 

Recent collaborative work with the University of Edinburgh will serve to raise the reputation of UEL through joint work looking at zoonoses nationally and internationally.  Recent collaborative work with CDC Kemri in Nairobi is a direct result from the Edinburgh collaborative work.

• Programme Leader for Professional Doctorates

• BSM002
• BSM007
• BSM009
• BS2024
• BS1005
• BS1022
• BS3023
• BS0001

VIDAL, V., CUTLER, S., SCRAGG, I. G., WRIGHT D. J. M. & KWIATKOWSKI, D.  (2002).  Characterisation of silent and active genes for a variable large protein of Borrelia recurrentis.  BMC Infectious Diseases; http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/2/25.

Whatmore, A.M., Murphy, T.J., Cutler, S.J., and Macmillan, A.P. 2004. An assessment of the potential of amplified-fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) for use in identification and typing of Brucella isolates. In: Risk Infections and Possibilities for Biomedical Terrorism. NATO Science Series: Life and Behavioural Sciences. Edited by: P.H. Elzer and K.T. Metodiev. 361, 95-99.

Amélie Dricot, Jean-François Rual, Philippe Lamesch, Nicolas Bertin, Denis Dupuy, Hao Tong, Christophe Lambert, Régis Hallez, Jean-Marc Delroisse, Jean Vandenhaute, Ignacio Lopez-Goñi, Ignacio Moriyon, Juan Garcia-Lobo, Felix Sangari, Adrian M. Whatmore, Sally J. Cutler, Alastair P. MacMillan, David E. Hill, Marc Vidal, Jean-Jacques Letesson and Xavier De Bolle.  Construction of a Brucella melitensis ORFeome version 1.1. (2004) Genome Research 14, 2201-6.

WHATMORE, A. M., MURPHY, T. J., SHANKSTER, S., YOUNG, E., CUTLER, S. J. & MacMILLAN, A. P.  The use of amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) to identify and type Brucella species of medical and veterinary interest. Journal of Clinical Microbiology (2005) 43, 761-769.

Scott, J., Wright, D., Cutler, S.J.  Typing African relapsing fever spirochetes.  Emerging Infectious Diseases (2005) 11, 1722-9.

Whatmore A.M., Shankster S.J., Perrett L.L., Murphy T.J., Brew S.D., Thirlwall R.E., Cutler S.J., & MacMillan A.P.  (2006) Identification and characterization of variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) markers for typing of Brucella spp.  J. Clin Microbiol. 46, 1982-1993.

Meri, T, Cutler, S.J., Blom, A.M., Meri, S. & Jokiranta, T.S.  (2006)  Relapsing fever spirochetes Borrelia recurrentis and Borrelia duttonii utilize C4b binding protein for complement evasion.  Infection & Immunity; 74: 4157-63.

Cutler S. J. Scott J. C. & Wright D.J.M.  (2006). Are Borrelia recurrentis and Borrelia duttonii the same spirochaete? NATO ARW.  Edited by Felipe C. Cabello, Dagmar Hulinska & Henry P. Godfrey.  Life & Behavioural Sciences Vol. 373 IOS Press, pages 159-173.

Cutler, S.J., Scott, J.C. & Wright, D.J.M.  (2008).  Phylogenic relationship between Borrelia recurrentis and Borrelia duttonii. International Journal of Medical Microbiology; 298 (S1): 193-202.

Magali Lescot, Stéphane Audic, Catherine Robert, Thitien Nguyen, Guillaume Blanc, Sally J. Cutler, Jean-Michel Claverie, Didier Raoult & Michel Drancourt. The genome of Borrelia recurrentis, the agent of deadly louse-borne relapsing fever, is a degraded subset of tick-borne Borrelia duttonii. PLoS Genetics September 2008 e1000185.

Marcus Thein, Ignas Bunikis, Katrin Denker, Christer Larsson, Sally Cutler, Michele Drancourt,    Tom G. Schwan, Reinhard Mentele, Friedrich Lottspeich, Sven Bergström and Roland Benz. 2008. Oms38, a pore-forming protein in the outer membrane of relapsing fever spirochetes. J. Bacteriology 190: 7035-7042.

Grosskinsky S, Schott M, Brenner C, Cutler SJ, Kraiczy P, et al. 2009 Borrelia recurrentis Employs a Novel Multifunctional Surface Protein with Anti-Complement, Anti-Opsonic and Invasive Potential to Escape Innate Immunity. PLoS ONE 4(3): e4858. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004858

Cutler, S.J. Bonilla, E.M., Singh, R. 2010 Insights into the Population Structure of East African Relapsing Fever Borrelia. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 16 (7) 1076-1080.

Grosskinsky, S. Schott, M., Brenner, C., Cutler, S.J., Simon, M.M. Wallich, R. 2010 Human complement regulators C4b-binding protein and C1 esterase inhibitor interact with a novel outer surface protein of Borrelia recurrentis. PLoS Neglected Trop Diseases 4(6): e698.

Palma M, Lopes de Carvalho I, Figueiredo, M, Amaro, F, Boinas F, Cutler SJ, Núncio MS. 2011. Borrelia hispanica in Ornithodoros erraticus, Portugal. Clinical Microbiology & Infection 18: 696-701.

Cutler, S.J., Abdissa, A., Adamu, H., Tolosa, T., Gashaw, A. 2012 Borrelia in Ethiopian ticks. Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases 3: 14-17.

Cutler, S.J., Abdissa, A., Adamu, H., Tolosa, T., Gashaw, A. 2012 Bartonella in Ethiopian lice. Comparative Immunology, Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 35: 17-21.

Pader, V., Nikitorowicz-Buniak, J. Abdissa, A., Adamu, H., Tolosa, T., Gashaw, A. Cutler, S.J. 2012Rickettsia hoogstraalii in Ethiopian Argas persicus ticks. Ticks & Tick-Borne Diseases 3: 337-344.

Maina, A.N., Jiang, J., Richards, A.L., Cutler, S.J., Ogola, E., Feikin, D.R., Njenga, M.K., Cleaveland, S., Mpoke, S., Ng’ang’a, Z., Breiman, R.F., Knobel, D.L. High prevalence of Rickettsia africae infection in Amblyomma variegatum ticks, but no evidence of infection in humans or cattle in rural western Kenya. PLoS Neglected Trop Diseases submitted December 2011.

Halliday, JEB, Knobel, DL, Bronsvoort, M de C, Handel, I, Agwanda, B, Cutler, SJ, Olack, B, Njenga, MK, Cleaveland, S, Breiman, RF. Towards an understanding of leptospirosis in Africa: infection patterns in rodents in the Kibera urban slum, Kenya. In preparation 2012.

Haitham E, Gimenez G, Sokna C, Barker SC, Cutler SJ, Raoult D, Drancourt M. Multispacer sequence typing relapsing fever borreliae in Africa. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2012; 6: e1652. Doi:10.1371/journalpntd.0011652.

Haitham E, Gimenez G, Robert C, Cutler SJ, Raoult D, Drancourt M. 2012 Complete genome sequence of Borrelia crocidurae. J Bacteriol 194 (14) 3723-4.

Naddaf SR, Ghazinezhad B, Bahramali G, Cutler SJ. 2012 Phylogenetic analysis of the spirochete Borrelia microti, a potential agent of relapsing fever in Iran. J Clin Microbiol; 50; (9) 2873-2876.

Knobel, D.L., Maina, A.N., Cutler, S.J., Ogola, E., Feikin, D.R., Junghae, M., Halliday, J.E.B., Richards, A.L., Breiman, R.F., Cleaveland, S., & Njenga, M.K. 2013 Coxiella burnetii in humans, domestic ruminants and ticks in rural western Kenya. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.12-0169.

Palma M, Lopes de Carvalho I, Osório H, Zé-Zé L, Cutler SJ, Núncio MS. Portuguese hosts for Ornithodoros erraticus ticks. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. Revision submitted December 2012.

Haitham E, Henry M, Diatta G, Mediannikov O, Sokna C, Tall A, Socolovschi C, Cutler SJ, Bilcha KD, Ali J, Campelo D, Barker SC, Raoult D, Drancourt M. 2013 Multiplex real-time PCR diagnostic of relapsing fevers in Africa. PLoS Neglected Trop Diseases 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002042.

REVIEWS / CHAPTERS:

CUTLER, S. J., JONES, S., WRIGHT, D.J.M. & ZHANG, H. (2000).  Cultivation of East African Relapsing Fever Borrelia and Review of Preceding Events. Journal of Spirochetal and Tick-Borne Diseases; 7:52-58.

CUTLER, S. J. (2001).  Molecular biology of the relapsing fever Borrelia.  In Molecular Medical Microbiology.  Ed. M. Sussman.  Chapter 98: 2093-2113.

Cutler, S.J. and Woodward, M.J.Lyme borreliosis in the UK – ecology and risks to domestic animals and Man. (2001) Reviews in Medical Microbiology, 12(4), 199-209.

CUTLER, S. J., PAIBA, G. A., HOWELLS, J. & MORGAN, K. L.  (2002). Q fever – a forgotten disease?  Lancet Infectious Diseases; 2: 717-8.

Smits, H. L. & Cutler, S. J.  (2004) Contributions of biotechnology to the control and prevention of brucellosis in Africa.  African Journal of Biotechnology; 3: p631-636.

CUTLER, S. J., Whatmore, A.M., Commander, N.J.  (2005). Brucellosis – new aspects of an old disease.  Journal for Applied Microbiology 98: 1270-81.

Cutler, S.J.  (2006). Possibilities for Relapsing Fever Reemergence.  Emerging Infectious Diseases 12: (3); 369-374.

Cutler, S. J. & Cutler, R.R.  (2006) Brucellosis – the most common bacterial zoonotic disease? The Biomedical Scientist50 (4): 336-341.

CUTLER, S. J.  (2006) Brucellosis – new paradigms for a classical microbe.  Culture (Oxoid); 27: 1-4.

Cutler, S.J., Bouzid, M. & Cutler, R.R. (2006) Q fever – a rarely reported zoonoses.  The Biomedical Scientist 50 (11): 973-978.

Cutler, S.J., Bouzid, M. & Cutler, R.R. (2007) Q fever.  Journal of Infection: 54: 313-318.

Cutler, S.J., & Cutler, R.R.  (2007) Glanders and melioidosis – diseases caused by Burkholderia species. Biomedical Scientist 51 (5): 348-352.

Cutler, S.J., Abdissa, A. & Trape, J-F.(2009)New Concepts for the Old Challenges of African Relapsing Fever Borreliosis. Clinical Microbiology & Infection.15: 400-6.

Cutler SJ, Fooks AR, van der Poel WHM. (2010) Public health threat of new, reemerging, and neglected zoonoses in the industrialized world. Emerg Infect Dis 16 (1) 1-7.

Cutler, S.J. (2010) Relapsing Fever – A forgotten disease revealed. Journal for Applied Microbiology 108: 1115-1122.

Cutler, S.J. Frangoulidis D. (2012) Coxiella burnetii – Q fever. BSL3 and BSL4 Agents: Epidemiology, Microbiology and Practical Guidelines. Editors Mandy Elschner, Sally Cutler, Manfred Weidman and Patrick Butaye Wiley-VCH.

Alice N. Maina; Stephanie Speck; Eva Spitalska; Rudolf Toman;Gerhard Dobler; Sally J. Cutler (2012) Rickettsiosis- Rickettsia species. BSL3 and BSL4 Agents: Epidemiology, Microbiology and Practical Guidelines. Editors Mandy Elschner, Sally Cutler, Manfred Weidman and Patrick Butaye Wiley-VCH.

Sally J. Cutler, Michel S. Zygmunt& Bruno Garin-Bastuji (2012) Brucellosis – Brucella species. BSL3 and BSL4 Agents: Epidemiology, Microbiology and Practical Guidelines. Editors Mandy Elschner, Sally Cutler, Manfred Weidman and Patrick Butaye Wiley-VCH.

Cutler S.J. (2012) Coxiella burnetii. (Chapter 94) In: Encyclopaedia of Food Safety Editors Yasmine Motarjemi & Leon Gorris Academic Press in preparation.

Massung, R., Cutler, S., Frangoulidis, D. (2012) Molecular typing of Coxiella burnetii (Q fever) [Chapter 19]. In: Coxiella burnetii:Recent advances and new perspectives in research of the Q fever bacterium. Eds. R. Toman, R. Heinzen, J. Mege, and J. Samuel; Pub: Springer

Yohannes M, Degefu H, Tolosa T, Belihu K, Cutler R, Cutler S. Brucellosis in Ethiopia – a review. African Journal of Medical Research in press 2013.

LETTERS/SHORT COMMUNICATIONS/EDITORIALS:

TAKAHASHI, Y., CUTLER, S. J. & FUKUNAGA, M.  (2000). Size conversion of a linear plasmid in the relapsing fever agent Borrelia duttonii.  Microbiol. Immunol.; 44: 1071-4.

CUTLER, S.J., BROWNING, P. & SCOTT, J.  (2006).  Ornithodoros moubata, a soft tick vector for Rickettsia in East Africa?  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1078: 373-7.

Meri, T., Pursa, E., Cutler, S.J., Jokiranta, T.S. (2007). A novel classical pathway evasion mechanism by relapsing fever Borreliae.  Molecular Immunology; 44: 215.

Thirwall, R.E., Commander, N.J., Brew, S.D., Cutler, S.J., McGiven, J.A. & Stack, J.A. (2008). Improving the specificity of immunodiagnosis for porcine brucellosis. Veterinary Research Communications. 32:209-13.

Cutler, S.J. (2008).Human brucellosis – where, when, what and how? Journal of Clinical Pathology e-letter 200705310.

Cutler, S.J. (2009) Myths, legends and realities of relapsing fever borreliosis. Clinical Microbiology & Infection Editorial 15:395-6.

Cutler, S.J., Fooks, A.R., van der Poel, W.H.M. (2010) Diseases and Industrial Food Animal Production (Letters). Emerging Infectious Diseases; 16 (9): 1503-4.

Cutler, S.J., Rinky, I.J., Bonilla, E.M. (2011) Does RecA have a role in Borrelia recurrentis? Clinical Microbiology & Infection 17 (2) 195-7.

Cutler, S. (2011) Spirochaetes: past lessons to future directions. Clinical Microbiology & Infection 17 (4) 481-3.

Cutler, S.J. (2013) Dangerous liaisons – our expanding appreciation of microbial synergism. Clinical Microbiology & Infection in press.

ORIGINALS:

1. CUTLER, S. J.  (1988) Investigation of the effect of heat enhancement on the growth of mycobacteria in radiometric medium.  Tubercle; 69: 197-203.
2. CUTLER, S. J. & WRIGHT, D. J. M.  (1989)  Comparison of immunofluorescence and enzyme linked immunosorbent assays for diagnosing Lyme disease.  Journal of Clinical Pathology; 42: 869-71.
3. CARY, N. R. B., FOX, B., WRIGHT, D. J. M., CUTLER, S. J., SHAPIRO, L. M. & GRACE, A. A.  (1990).  Fatal Lyme carditis and endodermal heterotopia of the atrioventricular node.  Postgraduate Medical Journal; 66: 134-6.
4. CUTLER, S. J., & WRIGHT, D. J. M.  (1990)  Evaluation of three commercial tests for Lyme disease.  Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease; 13: 271-2.
5. CRYAN, B., CUTLER, S. J., WRIGHT, D. J. M.  (1992).  Lyme disease in Ireland.  Irish Medical Journal; 85: 65-7.
6. HUGHES, P. J., LANE, R. J. M., CUTLER, S. J., WRIGHT, D. J. M., ABRAHAM, R. M., WADE, J. P. H. & LEVY, D. M.  (1993).  Small-fiber dysfunction in a Borrelia burgdorferi infection.  Muscle and Nerve; 16: 221-2.
7. CUTLER, S. J., WRIGHT, D. J. M. & LUCKHURST, V. H.  (1993).  Simplified method for the interpretation of immunoblots for Lyme borreliosis.  FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology; 6: 281-6
8. CUTLER, S. J. & WRIGHT, D. J. M.  Predictive value of serology for diagnosing Lyme borreliosis.  Journal of Clinical Pathology 1994; 47:344-9.
9. LESLIE, T. A., LEVELL, N. J., CUTLER, S. J., CANN, K. J., SMITH, M., WRIGHT, D. J. M., GILKES, J. J. H. & ROBINSON, W. E.  Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans: a case report and review of the literature.  British Journal of Dermatology 1994; 131:687-93.
10. MARTI RAS, N., LASCOLA, B., POSTIC, D., CUTLER, S. J., RODHAIN, F., BARANTON, G. & RAOULT D.  (1996)  Phylogenesis of relapsing fever Borrrelia.  International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology; 46: 859-865.
11. WRIGHT D. M. J., CUTLER S. J., WORMSER, G. P., LUGER, S. W & COLLINS, J. J.  (1996)  The Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction in patients with erythema migrans.  Journal of Spirochetal and Tick-Borne Diseases; 3: 98-100.
12. CUTLER, S. J., MOSS, J., FUKUNAGA, M. WRIGHT, D. J. M., FEKADE, D. & WARRELL, D.  (1997) Borrelia recurrentis characterization and comparison with relapsing-fever, Lyme-associated, and other Borrelia spp.  International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology; 47: 958-68.
13. CUTLER, S. J., AKINTUNDE, C. O. K., MOSS, J., FUKUNAGA, M., KURTENBACH, K., TALBERT, A., ZHANG, H., WRIGHT, D. J. M. & WARRELL, D. A.  (1999).  Successful in-vitro cultivation of Borrelia duttonii and its comparison with B. recurrentis.  International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology; 49: 1793-9.             
14. VIDAL, V., CUTLER, S., SCRAGG, I. G., WRIGHT D. J. M. & KWIATKOWSKI, D.  (2002).  Characterisation of silent and active genes for a variable large protein of Borrelia recurrentis.  BMC Infectious Diseases; http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/2/25.
15. Whatmore, A.M., Murphy, T.J., Cutler, S.J., and Macmillan, A.P. 2004. An assessment of the potential of amplified-fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) for use in identification and typing of Brucella isolates. In: Risk Infections and Possibilities for Biomedical Terrorism. NATO Science Series: Life and Behavioural Sciences. Edited by: P.H. Elzer and K.T. Metodiev. 361, 95-99.
16. Amélie Dricot, Jean-François Rual, Philippe Lamesch, Nicolas Bertin, Denis Dupuy, Hao Tong, Christophe Lambert, Régis Hallez, Jean-Marc Delroisse, Jean Vandenhaute, Ignacio Lopez-Goñi, Ignacio Moriyon, Juan Garcia-Lobo, Felix Sangari, Adrian M. Whatmore, Sally J. Cutler, Alastair P. MacMillan, David E. Hill, Marc Vidal, Jean-Jacques Letesson and Xavier De Bolle.  Construction of a Brucella melitensis ORFeome version 1.1. (2004) Genome Research 14, 2201-6.
17. WHATMORE, A. M., MURPHY, T. J., SHANKSTER, S., YOUNG, E., CUTLER, S. J. & MacMILLAN, A. P.  The use of amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) to identify and type Brucella species of medical and veterinary interest. Journal of Clinical Microbiology (2005) 43, 761-769.
18. Scott, J., Wright, D., Cutler, S.J.  Application of 16S-23S intragenic spacer fragment typing for African relapsing fever spirochaetes.  Emerging Infectious Diseases (2005) 11, 1722-9.
19. Whatmore A.M., Shankster S.J., Perrett L.L., Murphy T.J., Brew S.D., Thirlwall R.E., Cutler S.J., & MacMillan A.P.  (2006) Identification and characterization of variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) markers for typing of Brucella spp.  J. Clin Microbiol. 46, 1982-1993.
20. Meri, T, Cutler, S.J., Blom, A.M., Meri, S. & Jokiranta, T.S.  (2006)  Relapsing fever spirochetes Borrelia recurrentis and Borrelia duttonii utilize C4b binding protein for complement evasion.  Infection & Immunity; 74: 4157-63.
21. Cutler S. J. Scott J. C. & Wright D.J.M.  (2006). Are Borrelia recurrentis and Borrelia duttonii the same spirochaete? NATO ARW.  Edited by Felipe C. Cabello, Dagmar Hulinska & Henry P. Godfrey.  Life & Behavioural Sciences Vol. 373 IOS Press, pages 159-173.
22. Pusa, E., Meri, T., Cutler, S.J., & Jokiranta, T.S. (2007). Relapsing fever Borrelia bind specifically human IgG3 and mouse IgG2b antibodies via Fc-region. Journal of Immunology submitted March 2007.
23. Cutler, S.J., Scott, J.C. & Wright, D.J.M.  (2008).  Phylogenic relationship between Borrelia recurrentis and Borrelia duttonii. International Journal of Medical Microbiology; 298 (S1): 193-202.
24. Magali Lescot, Stéphane Audic, Catherine Robert, Thitien Nguyen, Guillaume Blanc, Sally J. Cutler, Jean-Michel Claverie, Didier Raoult & Michel Drancourt. The genome of Borrelia recurrentis, the agent of deadly louse-borne relapsing fever, is a degraded subset of tick-borne Borrelia duttonii. PLoS Genetics September 2008 e1000185.
25. Marcus Thein, Ignas Bunikis, Katrin Denker, Christer Larsson, Sally Cutler, Michele Drancourt, Tom G. Schwan, Reinhard Mentele, Friedrich Lottspeich, Sven Bergström and Roland Benz. 2008. Oms38, a pore-forming protein in the outer membrane of relapsing fever spirochetes. J. Bacteriology 190: 7035-7042.
26. Sonja Grosskinsky, Melanie Schott, Christiane Brenner, Sally J. Cutler, Peter Kraiczy, Peter F. Zipfel, Markus M. Simon & Reinhard Wallich. Complement regulator acquiring surface protein imparts innate immune evasion of epidemic relapsing fever spirochetes, Borrelia recurrentis. Submitted PloS Pathogens December 2008.

REVIEWS / CHAPTERS:

27. CUTLER, S. J. & WRIGHT, D. J. M.  (1988) Serodiagnosis of Lyme disease.  Serodiagnosis and Immunotherapy in Infectious Disease; 2: 2-6.
28. CUTLER, S. J.  (1989)  Lyme disease - a perspective.  Culture (Oxoid); 10: 3-4.
29. CUTLER, S. J.  (1992) Diagnostic tests for Lyme borreliosis.  Current Medical Literature, Infectious Diseases; 6: 67-73.
30. CUTLER, S. J.  (1993). Pitfalls in the laboratory diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis.  Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases; 52: 387-8.
31. CUTLER, S. J. & WRIGHT, D. J. M.  (1994). Pitfalls in the laboratory diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis.  In: Lyme Borreliosis, Edited by J. S. Axford & D. H. E. Rees, Plenum Press, New York, p285-9.
32. CUTLER, S. J.  (1994). Diagnostic tests for Lyme borreliosis.  In Peer Selected Citations ‘94  Infectious Diseases.  Editors A. Bentley, R. Davidson, R. Heyderman and M. Zuckerman.  Current Medical Literature Ltd, p56-63.
33. CUTLER, S. J.  (1996). Lyme borreliosis- an update.  British Journal of Hospital Medicine; 56: 581-4.

(a) CUTLER, S. J.  (1997).  Lyme borreliosis: an update.  Travel Medicine International; 15: 56-60.

(b) CUTLER, S. J.  (1997).  Lyme borreliosis: an update.  Practice Nursing; 8: 33-35.

34. CUTLER, S. J., JONES, S., WRIGHT, D.J.M. & ZHANG, H. (2000).  Cultivation of East African Relapsing Fever Borrelia and Review of Preceding Events. Journal of Spirochetal and Tick-Borne Diseases; 7:52-58.
35. CUTLER, S. J. (2001).  Molecular biology of the relapsing fever Borrelia.  In Molecular Medical Microbiology.  Ed. M. Sussman.  Chapter 98: 2093-2113.
36. Cutler, S.J. and Woodward, M.J. Lyme borreliosis in the UK – ecology and risks to domestic animals and Man. (2001) Reviews in Medical Microbiology, 12(4), 199-209.
37. CUTLER, S. J., PAIBA, G. A., HOWELLS, J. & MORGAN, K. L.  (2002).  Q fever –      a forgotten disease?  Lancet Infectious Diseases; 2: 717-8.
38. Smits, H. L. & Cutler, S. J.  (2004)  Contributions of biotechnology to the control and prevention of brucellosis in Africa.  African Journal of Biotechnology; 3: p631-636.
39. CUTLER, S. J., Whatmore, A.M., Commander, N.J.  (2005).  Brucellosis – new aspects of an old disease.  Journal for Applied Microbiology 98: 1270-81.
40. Cutler, S.J.  (2005). Possibilities for Relapsing Fever Reemergence.  Emerging Infectious Diseases 12: (3); 369-374.
41. Cutler, S. J. & Cutler, R.R.  (2006)  Brucellosis – the most common bacterial zoonotic disease? The Biomedical Scientist 50 (4): 336-341.
42. CUTLER, S. J.  (2006) Brucellosis – new paradigms for a classical microbe.  Culture (Oxoid); 27: 1-4.
43. Cutler, S.J., Bouzid, M. & Cutler, R.R. (2006)  Q fever – a rarely reported zoonoses.  The Biomedical Scientist 50 (11): 973-978.
44. Cutler, S.J., Bouzid, M. & Cutler, R.R. (2007) Q fever.  Journal of Infection: 54: 313-318.
45. Cutler, S.J., & Cutler, R.R.  (2007) Glanders and melioidosis – diseases caused by Burkholderia species. Biomedical Scientist 51 (5): 348-352. Cutler, S.J., Fooks, A.R. & van der Poel W.H.M. Are new, (re-) emerging and neglected zoonoses a genuine public health threat? Emerging Infectious Diseases. Submitted October 2008.
46. Cutler, S.J., Abdissa, A. & Trape, J-F. New Concepts for the Old Challenges of African Relapsing Fever Borreliosis. Clinical Microbiology & Infection. In Press January 2009.

LETTERS/SHORT COMMUNICATIONS:

47. CUTLER, S. J.  (1988) Evaluation of the Oxoid signal system for the detection of mycobacteria.  European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases; 7: 695-6.
48. MORGAN-CAPNER, P., CUTLER, S. J., & WRIGHT, D. J. M.  (1989) Borrelia burgdorferi  infection in UK workers at risk of tick bites.  Lancet; i: 789.
49. REVINGTON, P. J., WRIGHT, D. J. M., & CUTLER, S. J.  (1990).  A deer survey in Richmond park.  Deer; 8: 30-1.
50. LUPOLI, S., CUTLER, S. J., STEPHENS, C. O., WRIGHT, D. J. M., BLACK, C. M.  (1991)  Lyme disease and localized scleroderma - no evidence for a common aetiology.  British Journal of Rheumatology; 30: 154-6.
51. CUTLER, S. J., FEKADE D, HUSSEIN K., KNOX K. A., MELKA A., CANN K., EMILIANUS, A. R., WARRELL, D. A. & WRIGHT, D. J. M.  (1994).  Successful in vitro cultivation of Borrelia recurrentis.  Lancet; 343: 242.
52. SUMPTION, K. J., WRIGHT, D. J. M., CUTLER, S. J. & DALE, B. A. S.  (1995)  Human ehrlichiosis in the UK.  Lancet; 346: 1487-8
53. CRANWELL, M. P. & CUTLER, S. J.  (1996)  Lyme disease serology in cattle.   The Veterinary Record;  June 1: 551-2.
54. VIDAL, V., SCRAGG, I. G., CUTLER, S. J., ROCKETT, K. A., FEKADE, D., WARRELL, D. A., WRIGHT, D. J. M., KWIATKOWSKI, D.  (1998).  Variable major lipoprotein is a major TNF-inducing factor of louse-borne relapsing fever.  Nature Medicine; 4: 1416-1420.
55. TAKAHASHI, Y., CUTLER, S. J. & FUKUNAGA, M.  (2000).  Size conversion of a linear plasmid in the relapsing fever agent Borrelia duttonii.  Microbiol. Immunol.; 44: 1071-4.
56. CUTLER, S.J., BROWNING, P. & SCOTT, J.  (2006).  Ornithodoros moubata, a soft tick vector for Rickettsia in East Africa?  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1078: 373-7.
57. Thirwall, R.E., Commander, N.J., Brew, S.D., Cutler, S.J., McGiven, J.A. & Stack, J.A. (2008). Improving the specificity of immunodiagnosis for porcine brucellosis. Veterinary Research Communications. 32:209-13.
58. Cutler, S.J. (2008). Human brucellosis – where, when, what and how? Journal of Clinical Pathology e-letter 200705310.
59. Cutler, S.J. (2008) Myths, legends and realities of relapsing fever borreliosis. Clinical Microbiology & Infection Editorial submitted.

ABSTRACTS:

60. EAVES, S. J. (now Cutler) & GILLETT, A. P.  (1985)  Enhancement of mycobacterial growth in radiometric 7H12 medium by heat.  Abstract 03/11, 2nd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology, Brighton.
61. CUTLER, S. J.  (1986)  Differentiation of Gardnerella vaginalis  from similar organisms.  Abstract C16, 18th Triennial Conference of the Institute of Medical Laboratory Science, Southampton.
62. CUTLER, S. J. & GILLETT, A. P.  (1987) An assessment of the use of the Oxoid signal system for the growth of mycobacteria.  Abstract P4/5, 1st International Conference of the Hospital Infection Society, London.
63. CUTLER, S. J. & WRIGHT, D. J. M.  (1989)  Comparison of indirect immunofluorescence and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay methods for the diagnosis of Lyme disease.  Abstract 993/0547 p433.  4th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology, Nice.
64. WILLIAMS, N. G., CUTLER, S. J., TYRER, M. et al.  (1989)  Risk of acquiring Lyme disease in an endemic area in the United Kingdom.  Abstract 995/0547 p434. 4th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology, Nice.
65. CUTLER, S. J., WILLIAMS, N. G., & WRIGHT, D. J. M.  (1989)  Borrelia species from an endemic area for Lyme disease in the United Kingdom.  Abstract 908/PP43 p389.  4th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology, Nice.
66. CUTLER, S. J. & WRIGHT, D. J. M.  (1990) Comparison of ELISA and immunoblot methods for diagnosing Lyme disease.  Abstract M/Tu-P-93 p137.  IV International Conference on Lyme borreliosis, Stockholm.
67. CUTLER, S. J., PHIPPS, P., CRANWELL, M., & WRIGHT, D. J. M.  (1990)  Borrelia burgdorferi  antibodies in British cattle.  Abstract Tu-L-24 p43.  IV International Conference on Lyme borreliosis, Stockholm.
68. CUTLER, R. R., CUTLER, S. J., & WRIGHT, D. J. M.  (1990)  A macintosh based computer system for epidemiological analyses and the clinical reporting of Lyme disease.  Abstract W/Th-P-36 p72.  IV International Conference on Lyme borreliosis, Stockholm.
69. CARY, N. R. B., WHY, H. J. F., CUTLER, S. J. et al.  (1990)  Borrelia burgdorferi  and heart muscle disease.  Abstract W/Th-P-74 p110.  IV International Conference on Lyme borreliosis, Stockholm.
70. CUTLER, S. J.  (1990)  Lyme borreliosis in domestic and wild animals in the UK.  Journal of Applied Bacteriology; 69 (6): x.
71. CUTLER, S. J.  (1991).  Missing Lyme disease patients?  Lancet; 337: 1280.
72. CUTLER, S. J. & WRIGHT, D. J. M.  (1992).  Simplified method for interpretation of immunoblots for Lyme borreliosis.  Abstract 136, p A24.  V International Conference on Lyme borreliosis, Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A.
73. WRIGHT, D. J. M. & CUTLER, S. J.  (1992).  Clinical manifestations of Lyme borreliosis in the United Kingdom.  Abstract 53, p A10.  V International Conference on Lyme borreliosis, Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A.
74. CUTLER, S., FEKADE, D., CANN, K., EMILIANUS, R., WARRELL, D. & WRIGHT, D.  (1994).  Isolation and Cultivation of Borrelia recurrentis from Louse-borne Relapsing Fever Patients in Ethiopia.  Abstract D167.  94th ASM General Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A.
75. CUTLER, S. J., EMILIANUS, A. R., CANN, K. J. & WRIGHT, D. J. M.  (1994).  Can diagnositic tests for Lyme borreliosis distinguish louse-borne relapsing fever from Lyme borreliosis?  Abstract T68.  VI International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis, Bologna, Italy.
76. CUTLER, S. J., WRIGHT, D. J. M., MOSS, J. & FEKADE, D.  (1996).  Lyme and relapsing fever Borrelia compared.  Abstract G1235.  VII International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis, San Francisco, U.S.A.
77. CUTLER, S. J., AKINTUNDE, C. O. K., ZHANG, H., WRIGHT, D. J. M.  (1999).  Identification of variable membrane protein associated plasmids in Borrelia recurrentis and Borrelia duttonii.  Abstract O84.  VIII International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis and other emerging tick-borne diseases, Munich, Germany.
78. Cutler, R.R., Cutler, S.J., Josing, P.D. and Wilson, P. (2001) Activity of a Novel, Stable, Allicin Extract, in Liquid and Cream Formulations, against Methicillin Resistant  Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) including Mupirocin Resistant MRSAs. Abstract  41st  Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Chicago, USA
79. N.J.Commander, A.Vickers, S.J.Cutler, A.P.MacMillan (2002). DNA vaccination for protection against brucellosis.  NATO-ARW: Application of Genomics and Proteomics for Analysis of Bacterial Biological Warfare Agents, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
80. Cutler, S. J. TBRF Research – Past, present and future. (2003) Internet publication ‘www.mvumi.org’, 2nd International meeting on TBRF, Mvumi Hospital, Nr. Dodoma, Tanzania, 12-13 August 2003.
81. Cutler, S. J. & Talbert, A. Tickborne relapsing fever in Tanzania – a forgotten problem? (2003) ASM News (Current topics), 69(11): 542-543.
82. Cutler, S. J. & Talbert, A. Tick-borne relapsing fever in Tanzania. (2003) Microbiology Today, 30: (4): 167.
83. Cutler, S. & Whatmore, A. Progress in understanding brucellosis. (2003) The Vet. Rec., Nov 22, 153: (21)641-642.
84. McConnell, J. Tick-borne relapsing fever under-reported. (2003) The Lancet (Infectious Diseases), 3(Oct): 604.   

         Note: SJ Cutler wrote article but was not an author.

85. Whatmore, A.M., Murphy, T., Cutler, S.J, & MacMillan, A.P. The development of AFLP procedures for the identification and typing of Brucella isolates. International Conference of NATO & IMAB ‘Risk infections & possibilities for biomedical terrorism’, Varna, Bulgaria, 28-31 May 2003.
86. Whatmore, A.M., Murphy, T., Cutler, S.J. & MacMillan, A.P. The value of AFLP as a tool for the identification and typing of Brucella isolates. 6th International Meeting on Microbial Epidemiological Markers (IMMEM 6), Poster 115, p77, August 27-30 2003, Les Diablerets, Switzerland.         
87. Whatmore, A.M., Murphy, T., Cutler, S.J. & MacMillan, A.P. AFLP: A tool for the identification and typing of Brucella isolates. VLA’s 9th Annual Conference, University of Nottingham, UK (3-4th September 2002).  
88. Whatmore, A.M., Murphy, T., Cutler, S.J. & MacMillan, A.P. AFLP: A tool for the identification and typing of Brucella isolates? Brucellosis 2003 International Research Conference, poster 105, page 149-150, 15-17 Sept 2003, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
89. Thirlwall, R.,.Commander, N., Brew, S., S.Cutler, MacMillan A.  Investigation of the immune profile of pigs during infection with Brucella suis or Yersinia enterocolitica 0:9.  7th International Veterinary Immunology Symposium, Qubec, Canada July 25th –30th 2004.
90. Whatmore, A.M., Murphy, T., Cutler, S.J. and Macmillan, A.P. 2004. The value of AFLP as a tool for the identification and typing of Brucella isolates. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 4:291.
91. Whatmore, A.M., Shankster, S., Murphy, T., Perrett, L., Cutler, S. Assessment of the stability of Brucella VNTR loci in outbreak situations and in experimental infection 7th International Meeting on Microbial Epidemiological Markers (IMMEM7), 11-14th May 2005, Victoria, BC, Canada, American Society for Microbiology, Abstract 78B, p61 [Poster]
92. Adrian Whatmore, Steven Shankster, Terry Murphy, Lorraine Perrett, Sally Cutler and Alastair Macmillan. Assessment of the stability of Brucella VNTR loci in outbreak situations and in experimental infection.  Poster 11; The Prevention & Control of Zoonoses: From Science to Policy, Liverpool, June 15-17th 2005. [Poster]
93. Sally J Cutler, Paul Browning and Julie C Scott. Ornithodoros moubata, a soft tick vector for Rickettsia in East Africa?  Abstract 176, 4th International Conference on Rickettsiae and Rickettsial Diseases, Logrono, Spain, June 18-21st 2005. [Poster]
94. Sally Cutler, Julie Scott and David Wright. Typing African relapsing fever spirochaetes using a 16S-23S intragenic spacer. Poster D&C 40, MedVetNet General Scientific Meeting, Winchester, 29th June-1st July 2005. [Poster]
95. Julie Scott, Paul Browning, Alison Talbert and Sally Cutler.  Ornithodoros moubata a soft tick vector for Rickettsia spp. in East Africa. ENZ1, MedVetNet General Scientific Meeting, Winchester, 29th June-1st July 2005. [Oral & Poster Presentation]
96. Adrian Whatmore, Steven Shankster, Terry Murphy, Lorraine Perrett, Sally Cutler and Alastair Macmillan.  Assessment of the stability of Brucella VNTR loci in outbreak situations and in experimental infection.  ENZ10, MedVetNet General Scientific Meeting, Winchester, 29th June-1st July 2005. [Oral & Poster Presentation]
97. Browning, P., Wright, D. and Cutler, S. Role of man as the reservoir for tick-borne relapsing fever in Tanzania. 154th Meeting of the Society for General Microbiology (SGM), Bath University, UK, 29th March to 2nd April 2004, 9. [Oral presentation]
98. Cutler, S., Brew, S., Thirlwall, R., Murphy, T., Whatmore, A., Perrett, L., Browning, P., Young, M. and Shankster, S. Evaluation of different diagnostic approaches for porcine brucellosis. 155th Meeting of the Society for General Microbiology (SGM), Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 6-9th September 2004. [Oral presentation]
99. Scott, JE, Wright, DJM, Cutler SJ.  Use of intragenic spacer typing for characterisation of East African relapsing fever Borrelia.  10th International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis and other tick-borne diseases.  Sept 11-15th 2005, Vienna, Austria; P57. [Poster presentation]
100. Adrian M. Whatmore, Julie C. Scott, Sally Cutler and Alastair Macmillan. The use of a multilocus sequencing approach to determine genetic relationships within and between Brucella species.  58th Brucellosis Research Conference, Merida, Mexico, October 15th-19th 2005.
101. Adrian M. Whatmore, Stephen Shankster, Lorraine Perrett, Terry J. Murphy, Sally J. Cutler, and Alastair Macmillan. Identification and characterisation of variable number of tandem repeat markers for typing of Brucella spp. including additional highly discriminatory markers for epidemiological studies and species-specific markers.  58th Brucellosis Research Conference, Merida, Mexico, October 15th-19th 2005.
102. Cutler S.J., Scott, J.C. & Wright D.J.M.  Are Borrelia recurrentis and Borrelia duttonii the same spirochaete?  NENZ12 Med-Vet-Net 2nd Annual General Meeting, 3-6th May 2006, Malta.
103. Cutler S.J., Scott, J.C. & Wright D.J.M.  A forgotten pathogen in our midst? – Development and application of improved diagnostics for Q fever.  NENZ13 Med-Vet-Net 2nd Annual General Meeting, 3-6th May 2006, Malta.
104. Cutler S.J., Scott J.C & Wright D.J.M.  Borrelia duttonii and Borrelia recurrentis – clones of the same species? Abstract CM/SE 01, p 41: 159th Meeting of the Society for General Microbiology (SGM), University of York, 11-14th September 2006. [Poster presentation]
105. Magali Lescot, Stéphane Audic, Catherine Robert, Guillaume Blanc, Sally J. Cutler, Didier Raoult, Jean-Michel Claverie & Michel Drancourt.  Génomique comparative des Borrelia et évolution adaptative de Borrelia recurrentis.  JOBIMarseille, Marseille, France 10th-12th July 2007. [Poster presentation].
106. Cutler, S.J., Scott, J.C. & Wright, D.J.M. Are Borrelia duttonii and Borrelia recurrentis the same species? IX International Jena Symposium on Tick-borne Diseases “Climate change and tick-borne diseases”. 15th-17th March 2007, Germany.
107. Cutler, S.J., Hussain, D, L. Lasecka, A. Meredith, D.J. Shaw & S. Cleaveland Molecular detection of leptospirosis in UK wildlife 162nd Meeting of the Society for General Microbiology, Edinburgh 31st March-3rd April 2008, Poster MI 07.
108. Cutler, S.J. & Banai, M. Questions; answers; and the role of the “black box” – molecular typing of Brucella isolates from Israel. MedVetNet Annual meeting, Saint Malo, France 11th-14th June 2008. [Oral & Poster].
109. Webb, A.J. & Cutler, S.J. Application of the PathogenMip Assay for the identification of Brucella isolates to the species level. 11th International Conference in Genomics & Proteomics of Human Pathogens, HPA, Colindale; 26th-27th June 2008 [Poster]
110. Cutler, S.J., Bardenstein, S. & Banai, M.  Multi Locus Variable Repeat Analysis of Brucella isolates from Israel and thier comparison with classical biotyping. Brucellosis 2008 International Research conference, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, September 10th-13th 2008. [Poster]

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• F.I.Biol. Fellow of the Institute of Biology (1984)
• C.Biol Chartered Biologist (1984)
• FIBMS Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences (1984)
• CSci Chartered Scientist (2004)
• HPC Registered Biomedical Scientist (1983)
• NEBOSH certificate Passed with credit (2000)
• NEBOSH diploma part 1  Passed (2002)
• PGCert Passed (2008)

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS:

• W.H. PIERCE award for services to microbiology awarded by the Society for Applied Microbiology 1994.

LEARNED SOCIETIES:

• Member of the Society of General Microbiology
• Member of the American Society of Microbiology
• Member of the Society of Applied Microbiology (meetings sub-committee participant)
• European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

EDITORIAL ROLES:

• Associate Editor for Clinical Microbiology & Infection
• Ad hoc peer reviewer for 35 different journals.