Dr Justin Bradley

About

Justin is working on bioremediation and bioreduction of rare earth elements, copper and gold. In addition to using spectroscopy and structural biology techniques to understand interactions of these metals with proteins of interest at the molecular level, the ultimate goal is to produce engineered strains of bacteria capable of selectively extracting and concentrating them from waste streams. The strategy relies on internalisation of the metals within bacterial cells that are expressing variant proteins to which the metals bind with high affinity. The project combines protein expression and purification, spectroscopic and structural studies based at the University of East Anglia with studies of the genetic responses of bacteria to metal ion exposure in collaboration with the Quadrum Institute. 

Key areas of expertise: 

• Recombinant protein overexpression and purification 

• Magneto optical spectroscopy 

• Macromolecular crystallography