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Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

  • Applied microbiology and biotechnology
  • Supervisors: Dr Graham Christie and Dr Katherine Smart
  • Academic Background:
    • B.Sc. Agricultural and Medical Biotechnology 
    • B.Sc. Natural Resources and Environmental Science
    • Certificate in Fermentation/Distillation Technology

Research

Publications

Key publications: 

Gupta, P., Caldbeck, R., Walters, R. C., Wells, E. C., Hardman, B. L., Christie, G., Springett, R. J., & Blaza, J. N. (2025). Early activation of bioenergetic metabolism powers bacterial spore germination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(52), e2510996122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2510996122

Khan, S., Wicander, J., Korza, G., Caldbeck, R., Cowan, A.E., Christie, G., Setlow, P. (2025). Resistance and germination of spores of Bacillus species lacking members of a spore integral inner membrane protein family and locations of these proteins in spores. J Bacteriology. e0021725. https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.00217-25

Mustafa, A., Al Riyami, B., Ow-Young-Villarreal, G., Caldbeck, R., Pin, D.C.H., Yarrow, J. and Christie, G. (2025). Structural and functional analysis of Bacillus cereus spore cortex lytic enzymes and YlaJ/YhcN lipoproteins. Microbiology, 171(8). https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001591

Wicander, J., Gorsuch, J., Chen, L., Caldbeck, R., Korza, G., Brul, S., Christie, G., Setlow, P. (2025). Germination of Bacillus spores by LiCl. J Bacteriology 207:e00510-24. https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.00510-24

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