Our team conducts interdisciplinary research to elucidate the key microbes driving organosulfur cycling in the human gut, their mechanisms, roles and significance. We also study how this metabolism impacts human health with an aim to develop new pre/probiotics to benefit our health and ameliorate disease.

Likewise, we combine cutting-edge environmental microbiology, molecular biology and process measurements to investigate the biodiversity, pathways and enzymes driving the production and cycling of organosulfur compounds and climate-active gases in diverse marine and terrestrial ecosystems. We then apply this knowledge with detailed lab and field studies of the natural processes to evaluate their environmental importance and how they are affected by a changing climate.

Finally, our group, with our industrial partners, use seaweeds andbproprietary microbes and enzymes to produce high-value platform chemicals, dietary products and plant biostimulants from renewable sources, and to promote carbon capture. Furthermore, with Dr Ben Miller at the University of East Anglia, we also engineer stress resistant and more nutritious crops with the potential to stimulate the production of climate-cooling gases and to benefit our health.