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.

Making iron-sulfur clusters: structure, regulation and evolution of the bacterial ISC system
Corentin Baussier, Soufyan Fakroun, Corinne Aubert, Sarah Dubrac, Pierre Mandin, Béatrice Py, and Frédéric Barras

Functional imaging of a model unicell: Spironucleus vortens as an anaerobic but aerotolerant flagellated protist
David Lloyd, Coralie O. Millet, Catrin F. Williams, Anthony J. Hayes, Simon J.A. Pope, Iestyn Pope, Paola Borri, Wolfgang Langbein, Lars Folke Olsen, Marc D. Isaacs, and Anita Lunding

In situ absorbance measurements: a new means to study respiratory electron transfer in chemolithotrophic microorganisms
Robert C. Blake, II and Richard A. White, III

Bacterial catabolism of s-triazine herbicides: biochemistry, evolution and application

Lygie Esquirol, Thomas S. Peat, Elena Sugrue, Sahil Balotra, Sarah Rottet, Andrew C. Warden, Matthew Wilding, Carol J. Hartley, Colin J. Jackson, Janet Newman and Colin Scott