Newcastle University

Undergraduate Teaching

Stage 1:

BIO1004 - Microbiology 1    

BIO1010 - Biology in Action 

Stage 2:

BIO2017 - Microbiology 2 

ACE2041 - Food microbiology    

Stage 3:

BIO3020 - Bioremediation (Module Leader)

BIO3031 - Pollution of Air, Water and Soil 2

Postgraduate Teaching

BIO8010 - Bioremediation (Module Leader) 

Supervise two M.Sc. research projects. 

• Graham AI, Sanguinetti G, Bramall N, McLeod CW, Poole RK. Dynamics of a starvation-to-surfeit shift: A transcriptomic and modelling analysis of the bacterial response to zinc reveals transient behaviour of the Fur and SoxS regulators. Microbiology 2012, 158(1), 284-292.
• Holcombe M, Adra S, Bicak M, Chin S, Coakley S, Graham AI, Green J, Greenough C, Jackson D, Kiran M, Macneil S, Maleki-Dizaji A, McMinn P, Pogson M, Poole R, Qwarnstrom E, Ratnieks F, Rolfe MD, Smallwood R, Sun T, Worth D. Modelling complex biological systems using an agent-based approach. Integrative Biology 2012, 4(1), 53-64.
• Rolfe MD, TerBeek A, Graham AI, Trotter EW, Asif HMS, Sanguinetti G, deMattos JT, Poole RK, Green J. Transcript Profiling and Inference of Escherichia coli K-12 ArcA Activity across the Range of Physiologically Relevant Oxygen Concentrations. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2011, 286(12), 10147-10154.
• Graham AI, Hunt S, Stokes SL, Bramall N, Bunch J, Cox AG, McLeod CW, Poole RK. Severe Zinc Depletion of Escherichia coli: Roles for high affinity zinc binding by ZinT, zinc transport and zinc-independent proteins. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2009, 284(27), 18377-18389.
• Latimer J, Stokes SL, Graham AI, Bunch J, Jackson RJ, McLeod CW, Poole RK. A novel method for exploring elemental composition of microbial communities: Laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry of intact bacterial colonies. Journal of Microbiological Methods 2009, 79(3), 329-335.
• Maleki-Dizaji S, Holcombe M, Rolfe MD, Fisher P, Green J, Poole RK, Graham AI. A systematic approach to understanding Escherichia coli responses to oxygen: from microarray raw data to pathways and published abstracts. Online Journal of Bioinformatics 2009, 10(1), 51-59.
• Jackson RJ, Binet MRB, Lee LJ, Ma R, Graham AI, McLeod CW, Poole RK. Expression of the PitA phosphate/metal transporter of Escherichia coli is responsive to zinc and inorganic phosphate levels. FEMS Microbiology Letters 2008, 289(2), 219-224.
• Banci L, Bertini I, Cantini F, Ciofi-Baffoni S, Cavet JS, Dennison C, Graham AI, Harvie DR, Robinson NJ. NMR structural analysis of cadmium sensing by winged helix repressor CmtR. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2007, 282(41), 30181-30188.
• Cavet JS, Graham AI, Meng W, Robinson NJ. A cadmium-lead-sensing ArsR-SmtB repressor with novel sensory sites. Complementary metal discrimination by NmtR and CmtR in a common cytosol. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2003,278 45 44560-44566.