How Antibiotics and Microbial Metabolites Control Phage Behaviour

Project description

Antibiotics and microbial metabolites can do more than inhibit bacterial growth: they can also alter bacterial physiology and activate dormant phages. This project will investigate how specific antibiotics, short-chain fatty acids, oxidative stress compounds, or microbial metabolites influence phage activation. You will test selected compounds against bacterial cultures or microbial communities and determine whether phage particles are produced in response. Depending on your particular interests, we can explore microbiology, flow cytometry, DNA sequencing, or computational analysis of induced phages. The results will help explain how chemical signals shape phage-bacterial interactions. Work in our friendly and supportive group that includes Honours Students, PhD Students, and Postdocs. We love to travel the world and present our research.    

Further information

For more information about our research, check out our lab website and the FAME group's website

Assumed knowledge

You should have some background in microbiology, microbial ecology, molecular biology, biotechnology, or bioinformatics. A basic understanding of bacteria is awesome. We'll teach you bacterial culturing, phage biology, flow cytometry, and data analysis.

Note: You need to register interest in projects from different supervisors (not a number of projects with the one supervisor).
You must also contact each supervisor directly to discuss both the project details and your suitability to undertake the project.