RESEARCH PROFILE

The head of the group is Prof Dave Scanlan, Professor in Marine Microbiology in the Department

The group has several main areas of research:

· Community structure and niche adaptation mechanisms in marine cyanobacteria

· Molecular genetics of nutrient assimilation and regulation in cyanobacteria

· Sensing environmental stimuli in cyanobacteria

· Light regulation of gene expression in cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae

· Microbiology and molecular ecology of eukaryotic picophytoplankton

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Elucidating niche adaptation mechanisms in a ubiquitous marine phototroph: a targeted omics approach, with -, Funded by: NERC, Project Start Date: 01/04/2011 Project End Date: 31/03/2014
• No cost extension to 24889 - How important is prokaryotic photoheterotrophy in ecosystems of the Atlantic Ocean from 40oS to 40oN?, Funded by: NERC, Project Start Date: 01/02/2013 Project End Date: 20/12/2013
• SYNERGY - Marie Curie IEF - Joseph Christie de Oleza, with -, Funded by: European Commission, Project Start Date: 01/03/2011 Project End Date: 28/02/2013
• How important is prokaryotic photoheterotrophy in ecosystems of the Atlantic Ocean?, Funded by: NERC, Project Start Date: 01/02/2010 Project End Date: 31/01/2013
• No cost extension to 21748 " Dissecting, and revealing the controls on, the group-specific CO2 fixation budget of the Atlantic Ocean", Funded by: NERC, Project Start Date: 08/06/2012 Project End Date: 07/12/2012
• Regulatory gene networks and ecological distinctness in marine synechoccus, with -, Funded by: NERC, Project Start Date: 01/09/2009 Project End Date: 31/08/2012
• Dissecting and revealing the controls, on the group-specific CO2 fixation budget of the Atlantic Ocean, Funded by: NERC, Project Start Date: 08/06/2009 Project End Date: 07/06/2012
  
  

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Kirkham, A. R., Jardillier, L. E., Holland, R., et al.(2011) 'Analysis of photosynthetic picoeukaryote community structure along an extended Ellett Line transect in the northern North Atlantic reveals a dominance of novel prymnesiophyte and prasinophyte phylotypes' Deep-Sea Research. Part 1: Oceanographic Research 58 (7), 733 - 744 (0967-0637) [article]
• Chan, Y.-W., et al.(2011) 'Discovery of cyanophage genomes which contain mitochondrial DNA polymerase' Molecular Biology and Evolution 28 (8), 2269 - 2274 (0737-4038) [article]
• Millard A, Gierga G, Clokie MRJ, Evans D, Hess WR, Scanlan DJ(2010) 'A non-coding RNA in a lytic cyanophage links psbA with a gene encoding a homing endonuclease' The ISME Journal: multidisciplinary journal of microbial ecology 4 (9), 1121 - 1135
• Jardillier L, Zubkov MV, Pearman J, Scanlan DJ.(2010) 'Significant CO2 fixation by small prymnesiophytes in the subtropical and tropical northeast Atlantic Ocean.' The ISME Journal: multidisciplinary journal of microbial ecology 4 (9), 1180 - 1192
• Ostrowski M, Mazard S, Tetu SG, Phillipy K, Johnson A, Palenik B, Paulsen I, Scanlan DJ(2010) 'PtrA is required for coordinate regulation of gene expression during phosphate stress in a marine Synechococcus.' The ISME Journal: multidisciplinary journal of microbial ecology 4 (7), 908 - 921

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RESEARCH DEGREES SUPERVISED

• Regulation of cyanophage photosynthesis, Date of Completion: 2014
• Elucidating the function of a Synechococcus CRP regulator, Date of Completion: 2013
• Elucidating the function of metallothioneins in marine cyanobacteria, Date of Completion: 2012
• Molecular diversity of photosynthetic eukaryotes, Date of Completion: 2011