Stress Response in Pathogenic Bacteria

Dr Stephen Kidd was awarded his PhD in Molecular Microbiology from the University of Queensland. He then worked in Prof. Nigel Brown's research group (The University of Birmingham, UK) on the transcription factor MerR; the mechanism of its environmental stress response. He started work on a number of other MerR-like regulators and then after moving back to the University of Queensland, some of these which functioned in disulfide stress response in pathogenic bacteria. In November 2008 he started working at the University of Adelaide as a Group Leader in Microbiology and Immunology.

• Part 1: Oxidative and Nitrosative Stress 1: Oxidative and Nitrosative Stress Defence Systems in Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa 2: Coordinated Regulation of Stress and Virulence Adaptations in Stages of Haemophilus Pathogenesis 3: Nitric Oxide Stress in E. coli and Salmonella 4: Nitric Oxide and Gram-positive Pathogens Part 2: Novel Gene Regulation in Response to Host Defences 5: Novel Regulation in Response to Host-generated Stresses 6: Stress Responses in the Pathogenic Neisseria Part 3: Acid Stress: pH Control and Survival in the Human Host 7: Acid Survival Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogens of the Digestive Tract 8: Urease and the Bacterial Acid Stress Response Part 4: Nutrient Stress 9: Secretion Systems and Metabolism in the Pathogenic Yersiniae 10: Response of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to Oxygen Limitation and Excess Part 5: Metal Ions and Pathogenic Bacteria 11: Copper and Zinc Stress in Bacteria 12: Metal Ion Sensing in Mycobacterium tuberculosis 13: Salmonella and the Host in the Battle for Iron