BSc (Hons) Biochemistry, University of Southampton, 1984. PhD Biochemistry, University of Bristol, 1988. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, National University of Singapore, 1988-1992. E. Alan Johnston Royal Society Research Fellow, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, 1992-2002. Lecturer in Biochemistry, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, 2000-2003. Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, 2003-2009. Visiting Professor, Agronomy and Veterinary Faculty, University of Brasilia, Brazil, 2008-Present. DSc, University of Bristol, 2008. Reader, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, 2009-Present.

Work in Dr Berry's laboratory is centred around two strategies for the control of tropical disease:

Studies of insecticidal bacteria that can be used in the biological control of vector insects Investigations of potential new drug targets in the parasites

Dementiev, A.et al. 2016. The pesticidal Cry6Aa toxin from Bacillus thuringiensis is structurally similar to HlyE-family alpha pore-forming toxins. BMC Biology 14(71) (10.1186/s12915-016-0295-9) pdf Berry, C. and Board, J. 2016. The use of structural modelling to infer structure and function in biocontrol agents. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology (10.1016/j.jip.2016.07.014) pdf Guerra, Y.et al. 2016. Structures of a bi-functional Kunitz-type STI family inhibitor of serine and aspartic proteases: could the aspartic protease inhibition have evolved from a canonical serine protease-binding loop?. Journal of Structural Biology 195(2), pp. 259-271. (10.1016/j.jsb.2016.06.014) Berry, C. and Crickmore, N. 2016. Structural classification of insecticidal proteins - Towards an in silico characterisation of novel toxins. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology (10.1016/j.jip.2016.07.015) pdf Palma, L.et al. 2016. Draft Genome Sequence ofPhotorhabdus luminescensStrain DSPV002N Isolated from Santa Fe, Argentina. Genome Announcements 4(4), article number: e00744. (10.1128/genomeA.00744-16) pdf Palma, L. and Berry, C. 2016. Understanding the structure and function of Bacillus thuringiensis toxins. Toxicon 109, pp. 1-3. (10.1016/j.toxicon.2015.10.020) pdf Berry, C. 2016. Draft genome sequence of Photorhabdus luminescens strain DSPV002N isolated from Santa Fe, Argentina. Genome Announcements pdf García-Ramón, D.et al. 2015. Draft genome sequence of the entomopathogenic bacterium Bacillus pumilus 15.1, a strain highly toxic to the mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata. Genome Announcements 3(5), pp. -15., article number: e01019. (10.1128/genomeA.01019-15) pdf Kelker, M.et al. 2014. Structural and biophysical characterization of 'Bacillus thuringiensis' insecticidal proteins Cry34Ab1 and Cry35Ab1. Plos One 9(11), article number: e112555. (10.1371/journal.pone.0112555) pdf Palma, L.et al. 2014. Molecular and insecticidal characterization of a novel cry-related protein from 'Bacillus Thuringiensis' toxic against 'Myzus persicae'. Toxins 6(11), pp. 3144-3156. (10.3390/toxins6113144) pdf Berry, C. and Board, J. 2014. A Protein in the palm of your hand through augmented reality. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education 42(5), pp. 446-449. (10.1002/bmb.20805) Vidal Quist, J.et al. 2014. Arabidopsis thaliana and Pisum sativum models demonstrate that root colonization is an intrinsic trait of Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteria. Microbiology 160(2), pp. 373-384. (10.1099/mic.0.074351-0)