1. Sulfoxides in bacterial systems Alastair G. McEwan 2. RNA degradosomes and control by signals including c-di-GMP Marie-Alda Gilles-Gonzalez 3. Protein nanowires: Biological Function and Synthetic Constructs for 'Green' Electronics Derek Lovley 4. Bacterial nitrous oxide respiration: electron transport chains and copper transfer reactions Jorg Simon 5. Multiple degrees of separation in the central pathways of the catabolism of aromatic compounds in Dikarya fungi Cristina Silva Pereira 6. Oxygen regulation of nitrogen fixation in rhizobia Philip Poole 7. Dissimilatory reduction of sulfur and sulfate at low pH and its significance for bioremediation and metal recovery David Barrie Johnson
Professor Robert Poole is West Riding Professor of Microbiology at the University of Sheffield. He has >35 years' experience of bacterial physiology and bioenergetics, in particular O2-, CO- and NO-reactive proteins, and has published >300 papers (h=48, 2013). He was Chairman of the Plant and Microbial Sciences Committee of the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and has held numerous grants from BBSRC, the Wellcome and Leverhulme Trusts and the EC. He coordinates an international SysMO systems biology consortium. He published pioneering studies of bacterial oxidases and globins and discovered the bacterial flavohaemoglobin gene (hmp) and its function in NO detoxification He recently published the first systems analyses of responses of bacteria to novel carbon monoxide-releasing molecules (CORMs) and is a world leader in NO, CO and CORM research.