We said goodbye to Issy Holmes, who graduated with a 1st class in MSci (Chemistry-Biology). Congratulations, Issy! We wish her all the best in her future endeavours.
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Jack’s poster prize
Congratulations to Jack on winning the Biomolecular Interactions Research Group’s Poster Prize at this year’s Research Away Day! Jack presented his work on Cu-dependent nitrous oxide reductases.
Sam’s virtual flash presentation
Well done to Sam for her excellent flash presentation at the virtual York Microbiology Symposium today!
Metals in Microbiology collection
We are very pleased to launch this collection for the Microbiology Society’s flagship journal Microbiology. The collection is guest-edited by Dr Jen Cavet (University of Manchester). How fabulous is the cover image by our MScR student Jin Hong!
Louisa’s paper is online!
Our paper, “Role of Glutathione in Buffering Excess Intracellular Copper in Streptococcus pyogenes“ is now published in mBio. Congratulations to Louisa and co-authors!
UEA Chemistry seminar
Karrera delivered a virtual invited talk for the University of East Anglia School of Chemistry seminar series. We hope that an actual visit to Norwich will be possible in the near future.
Welcome Jin and Issy!
The group welcomes Isabel Holmes, a 4th year Natural Sciences undergraduate co-supervised by Prof. Steven Cobb (Department of Chemistry), and Jin Hong, a Masters by Research student. Both Issy and Jin will study Zn handling in Group A Streptococcus.
Antimicrobial copper and coronavirus
Karrera recently talked to Dr Katherine Wu at the New York Times about the antimicrobial properties of copper.
New paper from the group.
This was a fruitful collaboration with colleagues at The University of Queensland, Doherty Institute and The University of Melbourne, and Newcastle University.
For a general explanation of the work, please read our tweetorial.
