Funding and collaboration
Our bacterial genomics research team collaborates with scientific partners at a whole range of institutions – sharing knowledge and making new breakthroughs possible.
These include Professor Tim Mitchell (University of Birmingham), Dr David Verner-Jeffreys (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science), Dr Andrew Waller (Animal Health Trust), Professor Neil Thomas (The University of Nottingham) and Dr Sandie Choong Siew Shean (Universiti Malaysia Kelantan).
We always welcome collaborative discussions for future research programmes, so if you’re interested in working with our team, please get in touch.
Research grants
| 2017 |
BBSRC DTP-Industry studentship – Characterisation of Lactococcal and Streptococcal proteins critical for fish pathogenesis |
| 2015 |
Apoferritin as a virus-like particle for the display of sortase linked Gram-positive virulence factors (Collaborative project with the School of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham). |
| 2015 |
Horse Race Betting Levy Board – Identification of new vaccine targets for the prevention of strangles (Collaborative project with the Animal Health Trust). |
| 2013 |
MSD Connect Award – Identification of coding sequences of Streptococcus iniae required for survival and growth in serum |
| 2011 |
Commercial funder – Functional annotation of the S. uberis genome for fitness pertaining to factors affecting colonization of the bovine mammary gland. |
| 2008 |
Commercial funder – Further exploitation of virulent / avirulent strain comparison to detect pathogen factors critical to the pathogenesis of bovine mastitis due to S. uberis. |
| 2007 |
BBSRC – Exploitation of virulent / avirulent strain comparison to detect pathogen and host factors critical to the pathogenesis of bovine mastitis due to S .uberis. |