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Group Leader

Dr Joanne Santini
Address: Birkbeck College, Malet Street Room 313d Phone No: (+44)-(0)20-7631-6675 Email: j.santini@ucl.ac.uk

Postdoctoral Research Associates

Tom Osborne
Address: Birkbeck College, Malet Street Phone No: +44-(0)20-7631-6285 Email: tom.osborne@ucl.ac.uk Graduation: BSc. (Hons) Biology (Biotechnology), University of Edinburgh, 2006. PhD Microbiology, UCL, 2012.

My project is funded by NERC. The project is conducted in collaboration with Prof. John McArthur (Earth Sciences, UCL).

Publications_____________________________________________

Osborne TH, Heath MD, Martin AC, Pankowski JA, Hudson-Edwards KA & Santini JM (2013). Cold-adapted arsenite oxidase from a psychrotolerant Polaromonas species. Metallomics 5(4): 318-324. Link

Osborne TH & Santini JM (2012). Prokaryotic aerobic oxidation of arsenite, in The metabolism of arsenite, eds. Santini JM & Ward SA, CRC Press. pp. 61-72.

Heath MD, Schoepp-Cothnet B, Osborne TH & Santini JM (2012). Arsenite oxidase, in The metabolism of arsenite, eds. Santini JM & Ward SA, CRC Press. pp. 81-97.

Osborne TH, Jamieson HE, Hudson-Edwards KA, Nordstrom DK, Walker SR, Ward SA & Santini JM (2010). Microbial oxidation of arsenite in a subartic environment: Diversity of arsenite oxidase genes and identification of a psychrotolerant arsenite oxidiser.  BMC Microbiol. 10(205). Link

Sardiwal S, Santini JM, Osborne TH & Djordjevic S (2010). Characterization of a two-component signal transduction system that controls arsenite oxidation in the chemolithoautotroph NT-26. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 313(1) 20-28. Link

Bennett Nwaobi
Address: Birkbeck College, Malet Street Phone No: +44-(0)20-7631-6285 Email: b.nwaobi@ucl.ac.uk Graduation: BSc. Medical Microbiology, University of Surrey, 2004. PhD, University of Sheffield, 2012.

My project is funded by Hellenic Copper Mines Ltd.

Chloe Economou
Address: Birkbeck College, Malet Street Phone No: +44-(0)20-7631-6285 Email: c.economou@ucl.ac.uk Graduation: BSc. (Hons) Biological Sciences, University of Birmingham, 2004. PhD Molecular Phycology, UCL, 2010.

My project is funded by the BBSRC. The project is conducted in collaboration with Prof. Tony Cass (Imperial College, London).

Publications_____________________________________________

Santabarbara S, Casazza AP, Ali K, Economou CK, Wannathong T, Zito F, Redding KE, Rappaport F & Purton S (2013). The requirement for carotenoids in the assembly and function of the photosynthetic complexes of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Physiol. 161(1) 535-546.

Bassi R, Cardol P, Choquet Y, de Marchin T, Economou CK, Franck F, Goldschmidt-Clermont M, Jacobi A, Janssens M, Loizeau K, Mathy G, Plancke C, Posten C, Purton S, Remacle C, Wei L, Wollman F-A (2012). Finding the bottleneck: a research strategy for improving biomass production, in Microalgal biotechnology: integration and economy, eds. Posten C & Walter C, de Gruyter. pp. 227-249.

Postgraduates

Matthew Heath
Address: Birkbeck College, Malet Street Phone No: +44-(0)20-7631-6285 Email: m.heath@ucl.ac.uk Graduation: BSc Biochemistry, University of Sheffield, 2007.

I am funded by the MRC. 

Publications_____________________________________________________

Osborne TH, Heath MD, Martin AC, Pankowski JA, Hudson-Edwards KA & Santini JM (2013). Cold-adapted arsenite oxidase from a psychrotolerant Polaromonas species. Metallomics 5(4): 318-324. Link

Heath MD, Schoepp-Cothenet B, Osborne TH & Santini JM (2012). Arsenite oxidase, in The metabolism of arsenite, eds. Santini JM & Ward SA, CRC Press. pp. 81-97.

Heath MD, Henderson B & Perkin S (2010). Ion-specific effects on the interaction between fibronectin and negatively charged mica surfaces.  Langmuir 26(8): 5304-5308. Link

Shepherd M, Heath MD & Poole RK (2007). NikA binds heme:  A new role for an Escherichia coli periplasmic nickel-binding protein.  Biochemistry 46(17): 5030-5037. Link

Linda Dekker
Address: Birkbeck College, Malet Street Phone No: +44-(0)20-7631-6285 Email: l.dekker@ucl.ac.uk Graduation: BSc. Microbiology, University of Otago, 2003. MSc. Microbiology, University of Otago, 2006.

I am funded by the EPSRC DIAMOND consortium.

Publications_____________________________________________________

Gil-Tomás J, Dekker L, Narband N, Parkin IP, Nair SP, Street C & Wilson M (2011). Lethal photosensitisation of bacteria using a tin chlorin e6-glutathione-gold nanoparticle conjugate J. Mater. Chem. 21: 4189-4196. Link

Gargis SR, Heath HE, LeBlanc PA, Dekker L, Simmonds RS & Sloan GL (2010). Peptidoglycan modification by the lysostaphin immunity protein inhibits the activity of both domains of lysostaphin. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 76(20): 6944-6946. Link

Thomas LA, Dekker L, Kallumadil M, Southern P, Wilson M, Nair SP, Pankhurst QA & Parkin IP (2009). Carboxylic acid-stabilised iron oxide nanoparticles for use in magnetic hyperthermia. J. Mater. Chem. 19: 6529-6535. Link

Gil-Tomás J, Tubby S, Parkin IP, Narband N, Dekker L., Nair SP, Wilson M & Street C (2007). Lethal photosensitisation of Staphylococcus aureus using a toluidine blue O-tiopronin-gold nanoparticle conjugate. J. Mater. Chem. 17: 3739-3746. Link

Tom Warelow
Address: Birkbeck College, Malet Street Phone No: +44-(0)20-7631-6285 Email: t. warelow@ucl.ac.uk Graduation: BSc. (Hons) Biotechnology and Cell Biology, La Trobe University, 2005.

I am funded by the BBSRC and Biotech IgG.

Publications_____________________________________________________

Inskeep WP, Macur RE, Hamamura N, Warelow TP, Ward SA & Santini JM (2007). Detection, diversity and expression of aerobic bacterial arsenite oxidase genes. Environ. Microbiol. 9(4): 934-943. Link

van Lis R, Nitschke W, Warelow TP, Capowiez L, Santini JM & Schoepp-Cothenet B (2012). Heterologously expressed arsenite oxidase: A system to study biogenesis and structure/function relationships of the enzyme family. Biochim. Biophys. Acta - Bioenergetics 1817(9): 1701-1708. Link

Paula Corsini Madeira
Address: Birkbeck College, Malet Street Phone No: +44-(0)20-7631-6285 Email: paula.madeira.11@ucl.ac.uk Graduation: BSc. Biology (Genetics), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 2010. MSc. Genetics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 2012.

I am funded by the National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq).

Consuelo Pia Badilla Pino
Address: Birkbeck College, Malet Street Phone No: +44-(0)20-7631-6285 Email: consuelo.pino.11@ucl.ac.uk Graduation: BSc. Biology, University of Concepcion, 2006. MSc. Microbiology, University of Concepcion, 2009.

I am funded by Becas Chile, Conicyt.