Eukaryotic Microbiology
Microbial eukaryotes are everywhere.
Yeast physiology is fundamental to brewing and a range of industrial fermentation processes and forms part of our eukaryotic microbiology interests. Some eukaryotic microbes cause devastating diseases, which affect millions of people worldwide. These include pathogens such as malaria and sleeping sickness. Related species also infect animals - both farmed animals and wild animals.
Other eukaryotic microbes are extremely important in the environment - about half the oxygen in the atmosphere comes from photosynthetic eukaryotic microbes. Research in Biosciences research involves the study of coral bleaching, chloroplast engineering, and the study of pathogenic parasites which cause diseases such as Malaria, cryptosporidium, African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and East Coast fever in cattle.