Advances in Microbial Physiology

Professor Robert Poole is West Riding Professor of Microbiology at the University of Sheffield. He has >35 years’ experience of bacterial physiology and bioenergetics, in particular O2-, CO- and NO-reactive proteins, and has published >300 papers (h=48, 2013). He was Chairman of the Plant and Microbial Sciences Committee of the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and has held numerous grants from BBSRC, the Wellcome and Leverhulme Trusts and the EC. He coordinates an international SysMO systems biology consortium. He published pioneering studies of bacterial oxidases and globins and discovered the bacterial flavohaemoglobin gene (hmp) and its function in NO detoxification He recently published the first systems analyses of responses of bacteria to novel carbon monoxide-releasing molecules (CORMs) and is a world leader in NO, CO and CORM research.

1. The Microbiology of Ruthenium Complexes Hannah M. Southam, Jonathan A. Butler, Jonathan A. Chapman and Robert K. Poole 2. The Role of Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria in Metal Phytoremediation Zhaoyu Kong and Bernard R. Glick 3. Mechanism and Role of Globin-Coupled Sensor Signalling Johnnie A. Walker, Shannon Rivera and Emily E. Weinert 4. Cytochrome bd and Gaseous Ligands in Bacterial Physiology Elena Forte, Vitaliy B. Borisov, João B. Vicente and Alessandro Giuffrè 5. Haem-Based Sensors of O2: Lessons and Perspectives Eduardo H.S. Sousa and Marie-Alda Gilles-Gonzalez