Lecturer (Principal Investigator)

A biophysicist working at the intersection of single-molecule biophysics, nanotechnology, and bacterial physiology. Trying to understand how bacteria grow, divide, and generally survive at a molecular level using advanced fluorescence microscopy.

Contact: kevin.whitley@newcastle.ac.uk

PhD student

A Molecular Microbiology PhD student investigating how cell wall synthases build the cell wall in pole-growing bacteria. He graduated from University of Sheffield in 2023 with an MBiolSci in Biochemistry and Microbiology.