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Sam presented her work as a poster at the recent Gordon Research Seminar and Gordon Research Conference in Cell Biology of Metals, in Barcelona, Spain. Sam’s conference attendance was funded by an ECR Travel Grant from the Metals in Biology BBSRC NIBB.

Karrera presented our work on Cu homeostasis in Group A Streptococcus at the 6th Molecular Microbiology Meeting in Newcastle.

(Photo credit: Prof. Tracy Palmer)

Sam and Karrera had a great day volunteering at Soapbox Science Newcastle, a public outreach event to promote Women in STEM. Jeanette Alcaraz a PhD student from the Clark Lab (Durham Biosciences) is also pictured below.

Bonjour! Karrera delivered a talk at the Institut de Biologie Intégrative de la Cellule in Gif-sur-Yvette, Paris, France. A huge merci beaucoup to Dr Soufian Ouchane and his group for the invitation and for very interesting discussions on bacterial Cu homeostasis! There was enough time before the plane home for an obligatory quick trip to the Eiffel Tower.

We are very grateful to the Metals in Biology BBSRC NIBB for awarding an Early Career Travel Grant to our PhD student Sam Firth. Sam will use the funding to present a poster at the 2019 Gordon Research Conference in Cell Biology of Metals in Barcelona.

Karrera was featured in this fascinating article by C&EN:

We are very grateful to the Microbiology Society for awarding us a Harry Smith Vacation Studentship! The funds will be used to fund Daniel Owen, a Level 2 Biomedical Sciences student at Durham for 6 weeks over the summer. Daniel will work together with our PhD student Sam Firth to examine copper handling in the bacterial periplasm.