2023/24 seminars

Surface-engineered bacteria for plastic adhesion and degradation

Monday 13 May 2024

Join us for this seminar on how plastic-degrading microbes could help solve the global plastic crisis.

Exploring the depths of viral diversity in cow faeces and slurry

Monday 8 April 2024

Dr Andrew Millard (University of Leicester) presents this seminar exploring the viral community in cows.

Investigating the archaeal cell envelope by cryoEM

Monday 4 March 2024

Dr Bertram Daum (University of Exeter) presents this seminar discussing how the cell envelope acts as the interface between cells and their environment.

Structural studies of prokaryotic immune systems

Monday 5 February 2024

Professor Laura Spagnolo (University of Glasgow) presents her recent work from her laboratory, showing how cryo-EM enabled the team to visualise prokaryotic immune systems in action.

Exploiting lung adaptation and phage steering to clear pan-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in vivo

Monday 4 December 2023

Professor Jo Fothergill (University of Liverpool) will present their work at this seminar

Coordination between chromosome segregation and peptidoglycan remodeling during bacterial spore development

Monday 6 November 2023

Dr Christopher Rodrigues (University of Warwick) will present their work at this seminar.

Genetically modified bacteriophages as tools to study and accelerate phage therapy

Monday 2 October 2023

In this seminar, Dr Antonia Sagona will describe the lab work they have done to genetically modify bacteriophages, as well as present recently published work from her lab.