Staff
Dr. Susan Clarke; Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Marine-derived biomaterials; shared project with Schools of Chemical Engineering & Pharmacy (funded by Beaufort Marine Research Award, Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Republic of Ireland, 2008 onwards).
Prashanth Bhaganna; Research Technician, Systems biology of solute stress in Pseudomonas putida (funded by BBSRC as part of the European Systems Biology of Microorganisms (SysMO) initiative, 2008 onwards).
John Russell; Research Technician, Systems biology of solute stress in Pseudomonas putida (funded by BBSRC as part of the SysMO initiative, 2010 onwards).
Dr. Krzysztof Nowotarski; Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Novel roles of extracellular polymeric substances at subzero temperatures in sea-ice algae (funded by NERC, 2007 onwards).
Graduate Supervision
*Jason P. Chin; PhD: Use of microbial cells to elucidate the modes-of-action of compounds exhibiting mammalian toxicity (funded by Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Northern Ireland, 2009 onwards).
*Julianne Megaw; PhD: Towards a quantum improvement in exploiting marine microbes for biotechnological potential (funded by Beaufort Marine Research Award, Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Republic of Ireland, 2009 onwards).
*Andrew N. W. Bell; PhD: Optimisation of microbial function for the manufacture of biofuels (funded by Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Northern Ireland, 2008 onwards).
*Roxanna Snooke; MPhil: Limits of microbial function in agricultural soils and other terrestrial environments: stress mechanisms and responses of microbes in extreme environments (funded by Department of Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland, 2008 onwards).
*Ricardo P. dos Santos; PhD. student, Diversity, stress responses and ecological behaviour of Mycobacterium species (self-funded; Laboratório de Análises of the Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal, 2007 onwards).
*James P. Williams; PhD. student, Characterisation of stress mechanisms and responses: implications for ecophysiological classification of microbes (funded by Department of Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland, 2006 onwards).
*Prashanth Bhaganna; PhD. student, Solvent stress and compatible solute metabolism in Pseudomonas putida (funded by Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation, TNO Environment, Energy and Process Innovation, The Netherlands, 2006 onwards).
*Current students
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