Personal statement
Research in the Tucker lab is focussed on the application of genomics to the following areas:
1. Exploiting Pseudomonas for industrial biotechnology and the sustainable production of plastics
2. Investigating the mode of action of DNA binding antibiotics and their impact on transcription
3. Using metagenomics to identify useful microorganisms from the environment
4. Pathogen genomics and antimicrobial resistance
Nick's Career History:
2009-Present, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Microbiology, University of Strathclyde
2005-2009, Post-doctoral fellow, John Innes Centre, Norwich
2002-2005 PhD. Molecular microbiology, University of East Anglia
1999-2000 MSc. Human Molecular Genetics, Imperial College, London.
1996-99 BSc. (Hons.) Biochemistry, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
Professional activities
- BBSRC (Biotech & Biological Sciences Research Council) (External organisation)
- Member
- 12/2014
- Comparative genomics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Contributor
- 10/2013
- SULSA Symposium 2013
- Member of programme committee
- 9/9/2013
- Pseudomonas 2013
- Participant
- 7/9/2013
- Advances in Biology (Journal)
- Editorial board member
- 28/5/2013
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology (Journal)
- Editorial board member
- 28/5/2013
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Projects
- Investigating a novel class of Gram-negative active antibiotic suitable for clinical use
- Scott, Fraser (Principal Investigator) Hunter, Iain (Co-investigator) Suckling, Colin (Co-investigator) Tucker, Nicholas (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2023
- Environmental enrichment culture as a route to the biosynthesis of platform chemicals for the plastics industry.
- Tucker, Nicholas (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2024
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | McGee, Leah
- Scott, Fraser (Principal Investigator) Tucker, Nicholas (Co-investigator) McGee, Leah (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2024
- Exploiting Pseudomonas for the production of methacrylate for the plastics industry
- Tucker, Nicholas (Principal Investigator) Duncan, Katherine (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2022
- Research Excellence Award - Innovation in mass spectrometry to accelerate drug discovery - Castano Espriu, Laia
- Duncan, Katherine (Principal Investigator) Tucker, Nicholas (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2017 - 30-Jan-2020
- A comparative multi-omics platform for accelerated antibiotic drug discovery from ancient Polar bacteria
- Duncan, Katherine (Principal Investigator) Tucker, Nicholas (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2017 - 30-Jan-2018
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