SURE

Dr Lewis Bingle is Senior Lecturer in Microbiology in the faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing. His PhD looked at the molecular genetics of polyketide biosynthesis in filamentous fungi (moulds). These are an important class of microbial metabolite that includes many therapeutic (e.g. antibiotics and other drugs) as well as some significant food spoilage toxins. Other research interests are in the general area of molecular microbiology, across a wide range of medically-important topics: including microbial sex in Trypanosoma brucei (the causative agent of African sleeping sickness), the spread of antibiotic resistance genes by Gram-negative bacterial plasmids and mechanisms of pathogenicity in the human pathogens Francisella tularensis and Escherichia coliO157:H7.