Fellow 1994-1998

Research Interests
The cellular and developmental biology of the filamentous, antibiotic-producing bacteria Streptomyces. Fundamental aspects of bacterial transcription. The regulatory networks and cyclic nucleotide signalling events that control sporulation in Streptomyces.

Other Information
Appointed Group Leader, John Innes Centre, 1990
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1999
Appointed Professor, 2005
Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, 2009
Appointed Head, Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, 2012
Appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany, 2017
Appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Department of Microbiology of the Pasteur Institute, Paris, France, 2019
Appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2022