News

The group is very excited to welcome Lotte O’Hern, a 4th year Chemistry-Biology Natural Sciences research student, who will be working with us and Prof. Steven Cobb to examine a Cu-binding peptide from pathogenic Neisseria. Welcome, Lotte!

We are very sad to bid farewell to Jin Hong, who has completed her Master’s by Research year with us. We went to the Durham Cat Cafe to celebrate her time in Durham, but we were so busy playing with the cats, we forgot to take a group picture! We wish Jin all the very best in her future endeavours.

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.

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.

Today Karrera presented the group’s work on Cu handling in pathogenic Neisseria at the Inorganic Biochemistry Discussion Group. We are very grateful for the helpful discussions that followed. The group is now swimming in loads of ideas!

Well done to Sam for her excellent flash presentation at the virtual York Microbiology Symposium today!

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!

Karrera’s profile on the C&EN Career Ladder series is now live.

Our paper, “Role of Glutathione in Buffering Excess Intracellular Copper in Streptococcus pyogenes“ is now published in mBio. Congratulations to Louisa and co-authors!

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.