Principal investigators within this theme work on understanding the role of the microbiome in the environment.
The theme focusses on how bacterial communities interact with their environment, the latter including animals, plants, fungi and whole ecosystems, using evolutionary biology and experimental data to characterise how these communities react to major disruptions, for example, pollution or climate change.
Group leaders
| Name and link to profile page | Department | Faculty | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Andres Arce | Life Sciences | Natural Sciences | [email protected] |
| Dr Darius Armstrong-James | Infectious Disease | Medicine | [email protected] |
| Dr Cristina Banks-Leite | Life Sciences | Natural Sciences | [email protected] |
| Dr Michalis Barkoulas | Life Sciences | Natural Sciences | [email protected] |
| Professor Tim Barraclough | Life Sciences | Natural Sciences | [email protected] |
| Professor Thomas Bell | Life Sciences | Natural Sciences | [email protected] |
| Professor Martin Bidartondo | Life Sciences | Natural Sciences | [email protected] |
| Dr Tolga Bozkurt | Life Sciences | Natural Sciences | [email protected] |
| Dr Kanta Chechi | School of Public Health | Medicine | [email protected] |
| Professor Fan Chung | National Heart and Lung Institute | Medicine | [email protected] |
| Dr Thomas Clarke | Infectious Disease | Medicine | [email protected] |
| Dr Johanna Feary | National Heart and Lung Institute | Medicine | [email protected] |
| Professor Matthew Fisher | School of Public Health | Medicine | [email protected] |
| Dr Richard Gill | Life Sciences | Natural Sciences | [email protected] |
| Dr Peter Graystock | Life Sciences | Natural Sciences | [email protected] |
| Dr Rodrigo Ledesma Amaro | Bioengineering | Engineering | [email protected] |
| Dr Po-Heng Lee | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Engineering | [email protected] |
| Dr Andrew McArdle | Infectious Disease | Medicine | [email protected] |
| Dr Samraat Pawar | Life Sciences | Natural Sciences | [email protected] |
| Dr Paolo Piazza | Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction | Medicine | [email protected] |
| Professor Pietro Spanu | Life Sciences | Natural Sciences | [email protected] |
| Dr Claire Stanley | Bioengineering | Engineering | [email protected] |
| Dr Jonathan Swann | Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction | Medicine | [email protected] |
| Professor Alfried Vogler | Life Sciences | Natural Sciences | [email protected] |
| Professor Ramesh Wigneshweraraj | Infectious Disease | Medicine | [email protected] |
| Information correct at time of publishing, but subject to change without notice | |||
General enquiries
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