Dr. Vicky Shingler

Biography

Vicky Shingler is a full professor studying environmental signal sensing integration. Her research focuses on the underlying molecular mechanisms of how bacteria perceive their surroundings and regulatory signals, integrating multiple signals to effect appropriate changes in gene expression. The goal of her work is to ultimately determine the lifestyle behavior of bacteria. The major emphasis of her research group is on signal transduction cascades that control the degradation of toxic environmental pollutants by soil bacteria, specifically Pseudomonas putida, and the control of the production of type VI nano-machines deployed by Vibrio cholerae in inter-bacterial competition. She graduated with a BSc in Biological Sciences from Leicester University, UK, in 1980 and obtained her PhD in Molecular Genetics from the University of Birmingham, UK, in 1984. Following her doctorate, she performed post-doctoral research in the laboratory of Michael Bagdasarian at the Department of Molecular Biology at Umeå University from 1985 to 1987. She has remained at this institution ever since, serving first as a group leader from 1987 to 1989 and then as a lecturer (docent) from 1990 to 1995. In 1995, she was awarded a special six-year researcher position, sponsored by the Swedish Natural Science Foundation (NFR), and during this timeframe, she was appointed to her current position as Professor of Microbial Physiology in 1996.

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