MRC CMBI success at the 2013 Staphylococcal GBI conference

MRC CMBI researchers awarded the 'best poster' and 'best postdoc speaker' prizes at the Staphylococcal GBI conference in Dublin, 5-6 September 2013.

Sophie Nicod won the prize for best postgraduate poster presenter for her poster entitled "An uncommon domain commonly found in bacterial transcription factors associated with virulence gene expression" and Dr Rebecca Corrigan won the prize for best postdoc speaker for her talk entitled "c-di-AMP – the hunt for receptor proteins in Staphylococcus aureus." To see the abstract, click here.

Sophie and Rebecca are members of the College's MRC Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection. Sophie is a PhD student with Professor Ramesh Wigneshweraraj's group which studies the genes that control how S. aureus causes infections. Specifically, they investigate the molecular mechanisms that regulate the activity of RNAp and govern virulence gene expression in bacterial pathogens at the transcriptional level and at the level of RNAp activity. Rebecca is a postdoc in Dr Angelika Gründling's group which studies the biogenesis of the cell wall envelope in Gram-positive bacterial pathogens, in particular the assembly of proteins and wall polymers within the envelope of Staphylococcus aureus and other human pathogens such as Listeria monocytogenes.