On 28th November OxTalks will move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events' (full details are available on the Staff Gateway).
There will be an OxTalks freeze beginning on Friday 14th November. This means you will need to publish any of your known events to OxTalks by then as there will be no facility to publish or edit events in that fortnight. During the freeze, all events will be migrated to the new Oxford Events site. It will still be possible to view events on OxTalks during this time.
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My work has focused on understanding how bacteria organise their genetic material and regulate its expression. As a post-graduate student, in Steve Busby’s lab at the University of Birmingham, I studied gene regulation in E. coli. This work was very focused on individual chromosomal loci. My post-doctoral work took a different direction using genome-scale approaches. In 2008, I started my laboratory at the University of Warwick. Rather than focusing on gene regulation, I moved more towards the study of chromosome folding. My group moved back to Birmingham in 2012 and our research expanded into different organisms, particularly human pathogens. Most recently, we have started a new focus on Acinetobacter baumannii, the WHO’s pathogen of most concern. We have identified transposons as a key source of phenotypic heterogeneity in A. baumannii populations. We are starting to understand the clinical relevance and underlying molecular mechanisms
