Dr Christophe Corre, Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences and Department of Chemistry, has been awarded funding from BBSRC for his project on ‘Novel inducible gene expression systems based on furan inducers and the MmfR transcriptional repressor’.

The research will focus on investigating the mechanisms that control antibiotic production in Streptomyces bacteria, and how this can be exploited to generate new tools for use by the biotechnology industry. Chris was also recently awarded a three-year extension to his Royal Society University Research Fellowship to undertake a project on ‘Decrypting and exploiting new signalling systems that control antibiotic biosynthesis’.