I am currently a Reader in molecular and environmental microbiology with a particular interest in the evolutionary ecology of bacterial biofilms and environmental pseudomonad biology. I contribute to the delivery of teaching for a variety of Biomedical Sciences (BMS) programme modules, as well as running undergraduate Hons research projects, and my research group has regularly hosted visiting students and internships. I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and the Secretary for the Royal Society of Biology in Scotland Council, and a Senior Fellow of Advance HE. I completed my undergraduate degree in Zoology and Cell Biology from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, confered in 1986, which was followed by a MSc(Hons) in Cell Biology in 1988 and a PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology in 1993 at Auckland. Prior to joining Abertay in 2007, I undertook two postdoctoral research positions at the Department of Biochemistry and the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, a University Research Lectureship at Plant Sciences, and a year as a researcher at the NERC Centre for Hydrology and Ecology (CEH) at Oxford.