Author: karreradjoko

Congratulations, Safa (3rd year PhD student), for winning the Molecules and Health Best Talk Prize for her oral presentation at Research Away Day! Safa won some funding to support attendance at a conference of her choice next year.

Safa, Archie, and Will presented their work in the department’s Research Away Day. Well done, all!

Very pleased to announce that Lotte’s (past MSci graduate) adventure into insect biology with collaborators at the University of Connecticut is now out as a preprint.

Ant abaecin-2 is a context-dependent copper-binding effector that can be either inhibitory or protective

We are very excited that Sam’s (recent PhD graduate) and Will’s (current PhD student) paper is now published:

AccA from Neisseria gonorrhoeae provides a new framework for understanding periplasmic copper metallochaperones.

Here is a photo of Will’s first cup of tea in his publication mug, which surely tasted extra delicious. Sam has chosen to use her publication mug as a pen holder.

Safa (3rd year PhD student) presented a flash talk and poster at the inaugural Streptococcus Great Britain & Ireland meeting at Durham University. Karrera co-hosted and co-chaired this meeting, along with Alex McCarthy from Imperial College and Helge Dorfmueller from University of Dundee.

We are very sad to see Maya Basran and Jonas Flohr leave the lab after completing two very successful 5-week undergraduate research projects. We have really enjoyed having them in the lab and we wish them both all the best in their future endeavours.

Jonas (3rd year undergraduate student) talked to The Microbiologist about his summer project, which was funded by an Applied Microbiology International Summer Studentship. You can read the article here:

Summer studentship: Jonas investigates how metals influence bacterial ecosystems.

Congratulations to Atreyee (recent PhD graduate, supervised by James Walton in Durham Chemistry) for publishing the second paper from her PhD project. Click the link below to read the paper.

Today is a big day for Sam (recent lab alumni) and Will (current PhD student), because they have just submitted a manuscript! Definitely a major milestone for both that is worthy of a celebration. Fingers crossed for a smooth publication process. Here’s a photo of the two students with their very proud supervisor.

Time flies and before we know it, it’s time for Ben Kelly to finish up his MRes project. We are sad to see him go but happy that he will not be far away, as he will be starting a PhD with Dr Liz Morris in the same department.