Nicholas P. Tucker

Nick Tucker is a Senior Lecturer in Life Sciences at The University of Suffolk in Ipswich, UK. He completed his PhD in Molecular Microbiology at the University of East Anglia and was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the BBSRC John Innes Centre. His main research focus is the biochemistry of nitrosative stress and transcriptional regulation in bacteria, with a particular focus on Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other Gram-negative bacteria. He is also actively engaged in bacterial genomics and protein biophysics. He currently holds grants from both MRC and BBSRC relating to antibiotic drugs that target transcription in bacterial pathogens. Nick is a member of both the Biochemical Society and the Microbiology Society where he is a member of the Prokaryotic Division and an Editor of Microbiology.