Research
With such a large community of microbiologists on one campus, there is a huge variety and diversity to the research we do. The focus of our work can be categorised into six broad and interdisciplinary themes.
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Chemical Interactions
Antimicrobial Resistance, Natural Products, Cell Biology
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Climate and Environmental Interactions
Biogeochemical Cycles, Bioenergy
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Engineering Microbial Interactions
Synthetic Biology, Biotechnology
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Evolutionary Interactions
Biodiversity, Genetics, Genomics
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Microbial Community Interactions
Microbiomes, Infection, Health
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Plant-Microbe Interactions
Mutualism, Symbiosis, Pathogenesis
Recent Publications
-Rebecca Devine et al., Redox control of antibiotic biosynthesis, bioRxiv, 2025
-Thomas C McLean et al., Extracellular redox sensors control the protein secretion stress response in Streptomyces, bioRxiv, 2025
-Max L Jordan et al., Microbe Profile: Streptomyces venezuelae – a model species to study morphology and differentiation in filamentous bacteria, Microbiology, 2025
-Ho Yu Liu et al., Mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance in biofilms, npj Antimicrobials and Resistance, 2024
-Hannah V Pye et al., Phage diversity in One Health, Essays in Biochemistry, 2024
-Emma V Waters et al., From acute to persistent infection: revealing phylogenomic variations in Salmonella Agona, PLOS Pathogens, 2024