Research

For more than 20 years, David Summers' laboratory in the Department of Genetics at Cambridge University has conducted research in microbial genetics. Starting from an interest in factors affecting the inheritance of natural multicopy plasmids and cloning vectors in Escherichia coli, research projects have included the structure and function of nucleoprotein complexes in site-specific recombination and now focus to the control of the bacterial cell cycle.

An underpinning philosophy in the laboratory is that in addition to conducting excellent basic research, it is important to pursue vigorously any discoveries which show commercial promise.

Applied projects presently include the development of E. coli based bio-factories for the production of chemical intermediates, biopolymers, higher alcohol biofuels, hydrogen, and recombinant proteins.

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