Some research pictures and resources

Andy Truman (JIC) and I along with the 2024 cohort of the Summer School of Applied Microbiology created a list of bioinformatics resources for microbial natural products research - it's designed as a starting point - we hope you find it useful - you can find it here 

Towering colonies of Pseudonocardiaceae - the structures are quite incredible (photo credit: Kate Duncan).

Pseudonocardia sp.

Dunaliella primolecta growing under trace metal limited conditions (photo credit: PhD student Alison).

Interaction between two marine isolates ( Microbacterium and Rhodococcus_) and S. coelicolor. Observed inhibition in Microbacterium strain and S. coelicolor sporulation/metabolite production only observed towards Rhodococcus strain (photo credit: PhD student Laia).

The great actinomycete show down Duncan lab (left) Vs Herron lab (right) - we lost..

Marine microalgal cultures enjoying the highlands at Xanthella Ltd., Oban (photo credit: PhD student Alison Hughes).

Assessing the bioactivity of various Actinomycete strains against S. aureus (photo credit: PhD student Laia).

Eliciting an antifungal response from Pseudonocardia (KRD185, orange) by adding a chemical elicitor (rows: top 0 nM, middle 15 nM, bottom 150 nM). At 150 nM there is inhibition of both the Pseudonocardia and the fungi. However, at 15 nM there appears to be an antifungal response as a result of adding the elicitor (photo credit: PhD student Parra).

Working with L. Rooney, Parra generated these beautiful microscopy images of Pseudonocardiaceae (photo credit: PhD student Parra).

Nannochloropsis oceanica growing under white and 405 nm LED lights at Xanthella Ltd., Oban (photo credit: PhD student Alison Hughes).

Microalgal strains (photo credit: PhD student Alison).

A contaminant strain inhibits the growth of a Pseudonocardia strain and changed the pigmentation (photo credit: PhD student Parra).

Chlorella sorokiniana growing in MicroPharos PBR (from Xanthella Ltd.) under 405 nm light (left) and white light (right) (photo credit: PhD student Alison).

Inhibitory activity of a Pseudonocardia strain against the filamentous fungus R. oryzae (photo credit: PhD student Parra).