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Research

Research Interest 1

Genetic and molecular analysis of gene regulation and signaling. Currently we are utilising both proteomics and transcriptomics to investigate regulatory mechanisms in eukaryotes, using Aspergillus nidulans, which is a well developed model system.

Research grants

Characterisation and Manipulation of MEL production

CRODA (UK)

September 2015 - October 2016

Developing of understanding of the genetic elements for biosurfactant production by a basidiomycete yeast

CRODA (UK)

February 2015 - August 2015

2014 allocation - Wellcome ISSF non clinical fellowships

WELLCOME TRUST (UK)

May 2015 - October 2018

Exploring the self-assembly and heterologous engineering of bacterial CO2-fixing machinery

LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)

October 2016 - September 2019

Control of Hyphal Gowth

BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

July 2016 - June 2019

Prioritised expression of stress-related proteins in environmental thermoadaptive responses of animals

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

January 2016 - December 2019

Sensing and the biological response in plants (SENSIBLE).

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

April 2006 - March 2010

Characterising the molecular basis of cell proliferation in plants and its potential for manipulating plant growth and development.

BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

November 1998 - June 2003

YEAR 1 (part2) Wellcome Trust ISSF Non-Clinical Fellowships

WELLCOME TRUST (UK)

October 2012 - March 2023

CIC BioGUNE studentships

CIC BIOGUNE (SPAIN)

October 2013 - September 2017

Glasshouse facilities for plant based research at the University of Liverpool.

BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

October 2002 - November 2004

Regulated Transcript Stability

BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

July 2007 - June 2010

Exploring the transcriptome of Aspergillums nidulans

BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

July 2010 - December 2013

Co-ordination of nitrate and nitrogen metabolite signalling at the level of transcript stability.

BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

April 2001 - April 2004

Proteomic lead analysis of nitrogen regulation and signalling in aspergillus nidulans.

BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

November 2003 - October 2006

Tools for motif recognition in fungi

BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

April 2009 - July 2010

Regulating nitrogen metabolism in Aspergillus?proteomes, transcriptomes and RNA stability.

ROYAL SOCIETY (CHARITABLE)

November 2006

Genomically-integrated responses in environmental stress adaptation in teleost fish.

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

May 2000 - October 2005

Liverpool GeneMill

BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

September 2014 - September 2015

    Research collaborations

    Steven Roberts

    The University of Lancaster

    Fungal molecular biology - ion transporters

    Neil Hall

    BBSRC grant - A. nidulans transcriptome sequencing

    Prudence Wong

    identification of motifs involved in gene regulation.