Mentors
Professor Grant Burgess
- Professor of Marine Biotechnology School of Marine Sciences & Technology
- Email: grant.burgess@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: 0191 222 3057
- ZapzymeTM team mentor
Grant Burgess is a marine microbiologist who completed his first degree in biotechnology at Queen Elizabeth College, University of London. After a PhD in molecular biology from Imperial College, he worked in Tokyo for five years in the field of Marine Biotechnology. He then took up a lectureship in Marine Biotechnology at Herriot-Watt University where he worked for 11 years in the area of marine microbial ecology looking at microbial antagonism and production of antibiotics from marine bacteria. In October 2005 he took up his current post at Newcastle where he works on marine microbial biofilms and applied marine microbiology.
