Our PhD student Ndeye Bineta won the 3rd place prize sponsored by VectorBuilder in poster competition at the BIO Research Colloquium at the UEA. Congratulations Bineta!

(July 2025)

Jeff presented his work on DMSP cycling in seagrass at the NRPDTP Summer Conference 2025. Well done Jeff!

(June 2025)

Jon gave a talk about the importance of novel DMS-producing pathways independent of DMSP at the Microbiology of Climate-Active Gases symposium held at UEA.

(June 2025)

Our final year PhD student Jeff has been awarded an ISME Scholar Mobility Fund grant to visit Prof. Attila Szabo in Spain to study biogeochemical cycles in saline lakes. Congratulations Jeff!

(May 2025)

Lethe, Jeff, Tamim, Natasha and Jon attended and presented our latest research on DMSP and climate-active gases at the EuroC1 Symposium in Bremen. Congratulations to all!

(May 2025)

Our PhD student Ndeye Bineta won a Microbiology Society sponsored poster prize at the Centre for Microbial Interactions (CMI) Annual Conference #CMINorwich25.

(February 2025)

Exciting news! Our Lab Technician, Özlem, will be starting her NRPDTP PhD with us in October 2025.

(March 2025)

Our former PhD student Libby Hanwell aced her viva and graduated as a Doctor of Philosophy. Well done Libby! We wish you all the best on your new adventures!

(January 2025)

Well done to our researchers (Xiaoyu, Yang, Bineta, Chuang, Lethe, and Kai) who attended and presented their work at the 30th MMEG meeting. Special thanks to ‘Applied Microbiology International’ for awarding them the travel grant!

(December 2024)

Bineta presented her first scientific poster at the 2024 annual MMEG conference! She’s done a great job at explaining the complexities/benefits behind 3-hydroxypropionic acid production from seaweed waste.

(December 2024)

Catherine presented her poster describing climate-driven microbial interactions in the green tide-forming seaweed Ulva at the BES conference 2024 in Liverpool.

(December 2024)

Lethe and Bineta did an amazing job representing our lab at the UEA’s Open day. They shared our exciting research with prospective students and future microbiologists and discussed the wonderful field of microbiology.

(October - November 2024)

The Todd & Miller groups identify the first DMSP synthesis enzymes in plants and demonstrates DMSP protection against salinity and drought, which opens new avenues for bioengineering sustainable crops. Read more here!

(October 2024)

Alice will be joining our lab as a Master student to study the cycling of DMSP in fungi in collaboration with Dr. Stefan Bidula. Welcome Alice!

(September 2024)