Systems biology of bacteria includes research into the following areas:
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Prokaryotic gene regulation (Professor Steve Busby)
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Analysis and evolution of gene regulatory networks (Dr David Grainger)
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Cooperation and communication of microbes in biofilms, metabolic division of labour, individual-based modelling, systems biology (Dr Jan-Ulrich Kreft)
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Bacterial and archaeal stress response, chaperones and in vivo protein folding
(Dr Pete Lund)
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Molecular biology and functional genomics of bacterial foodborne pathogens
(Professor Charles Penn)
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Bacterial plasmid replication, stability & transfer; polyketide synthesis
(Professor Chris Thomas)