Project Description

Prof. Nicola Stanley-Wall
Principal Investigator,
Stanley-Wall Research Group,
University of Dundee
Nicola Stanley-Wall is a Professor of Microbiology at the University of Dundee in Scotland in the division of Molecular Microbiology Lifesci Dundee . She has a long standing interest in biofilm formation; the process by which social communities of bacteria form encased in a protective extracellular matrix. She addresses understanding biofilm formation using a wide range of techniques that span molecular microbiology and microscopy to with collaborators biophysics and mathematics. She is a keen proponent of public engagement with research and is Academic Lead for Public Engagement in the School of Life Sciences.