Andrew Lovering – Network — University of Birmingham

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Andrew Lovering’s team is interested in a variety of bacterial systems, especially those with the potential for antibiotic development. One of these systems involves analysis of the remarkable predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. Predatory bacteria feed off and eventually kill other bacteria, and thus research into this process has potential therapeutic possibilities. Bdellovibrio is the model predatory organism, and possesses an unusual lifestyle where it enters its prey through the outer membrane and resides in the periplasm. The host cell changes shape (forming a structure termed the ‘bdelloplast’) and the Bdellovibrio cell grows and replicates using material obtained from prey breakdown. Progeny then exit the dead host to start the cycle anew. Host-independent forms of Bdellovibrio may be grown separately from prey in rich media. Dr Lovering aims to understand:

The precise function of proteins involved in predation events
How Bdellovibrio responds to the challenges of intraperiplasmic growth
What specifically regulates the alteration to a host-independent (non-predatory) lifestyle

Research activity per year

The University of Birmingham

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40 shared research output

Life and Environmental Sciences

The University of Birmingham

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40 shared research output

Medical and Dental Sciences

The University of Birmingham

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21 shared research output

Microbiology and Infection

Medical and Dental Sciences

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12 shared research output

Cancer and Genomic Sciences

Medical and Dental Sciences

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6 shared research output

Clinical Sciences

Medical and Dental Sciences

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3 shared research output

Birmingham Medical School

Clinical Sciences

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The Centre for Computational Biology

The University of Birmingham

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1 shared research output

Immunology and Immunotherapy

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Applied Health Research

Medical and Dental Sciences

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1 shared research output

Cancer Clinical Trials Unit

Cancer and Genomic Sciences

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Newcastle University

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University of Nottingham

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University of Leicester

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University of Toronto

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1 shared research output

Michigan State University

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1 shared research output

University of Texas

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University of Illinois

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University of York

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University of Bristol

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University of Auckland

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1 shared research output

Université Grenoble Alpes

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1 shared research output

University of Oxford

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University of Chicago

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1 shared research output

University of California

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1 shared research output

University of Wisconsin

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1 shared research output

BSC‐CNS Barcelona Supercomputing Center

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1 shared research output

Birkbeck, University of London

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1 shared research output

University of Glasgow

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1 shared research output

University of Houston

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1 shared research output

University of Maryland

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Biosciences CenterNational Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden Colorado

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1 shared research output

Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology

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1 shared research output

University of Basel

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University of Birmingham

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CRUK Beatson Institute

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ETH Zürich

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Structural Biology Center, Biosciences DivisionMidwest Center for Structural Genomics Argonne

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University of Windsor

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