Advances in Microbial Systems Biology

Professor Robert K Poole is Emeritus Professor of Microbiology at the University of Sheffield, UK. He was previously West Riding Professor of Microbiology at Sheffield and until 1996 held a Personal Chair in Microbiology at King’s College London. During his long career, he has been awarded several research Fellowships, and taken sabbatical leave at the Australian National University, Kyoto University and Cornell University. His career-long interests have been in the areas of bacterial respiratory metabolism, metal-microbe interactions and bioactive small gas molecules. In particular, he has made notable contributions to bacterial terminal oxidases and resistance to nitric oxide with implications for bacterial pathogenesis. He co-discovered the flavohaemoglobin Hmp, now recognised as the preeminent mechanism of nitric oxide resistance in bacteria. He has served as Chairman of numerous research council grant committees, held research grants for over 40 years and published extensively (h-index, 2024 = 70). He served on several Institute review panels in the UK and overseas. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society of Biology.

• Systems Biology of Monovalent Cation Homeostasis in Yeast: The Translucent ContributionJoaquín Ariño, Ebru Aydar, Samuel Drulhe, Daniel Ganser, Jesús Jorrín, Matthias Kahm, Falko Krause, Silvia Petrezselyova, Lynne Yenush, Olga Zimmermannova, G. Paul H. van Heusden, Maik Kschischo, Jost Ludwig, Chris Palmer, José Ramos and Hana SychrovaTowards a Systems-Level Understanding of the Oxygen Response of Escherichia coliKatja Bettenbrock, Hao Bai, Michael Ederer, Jeffrey Green, Klaas J. Hellingwerf, Michael Holcombe, Samantha Nolan, Matthew D. Rolfe, Guido Sanguinetti, Oliver Sawodny, Poonam Sharma, Sonja Steinsiek and Robert K. Poole The Silicon Trypanosome: A Test Case of Iterative Model Extension in Systems BiologyFiona Achcar, Abeer Fadda, Jurgen R. Haanstra, Eduard J. Kerkhoven, Dong-Hyun Kim, Alejandro E. Leroux, Theodore Papamarkou, Federico Rojas, Barbara M. Bakker, Michael P. Barrett, Christine Clayton, Mark Girolami, R. Luise Krauth-Siegel, Keith R. Matthews and Rainer Breitling

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