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 (University of Birmingham), (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science), (Animal Health Trust), Professor Neil Thomas (The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½) and 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 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½). |
| 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. |