1985 2.1 Honours Degree in Microbiology, University of Leeds 1985-1988 Demonstratorship in Microbiology, University of Nottingham 1988-1990 Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Nottingham 1990 PhD in Molecular Microbiology University of Nottingham 1990-1998 Section Head/Senior Scientific Officer, Institute of Food Research 1995-1998 Honorary Lecturer, Nottingham University 1996-2006 Member of the editorial board of the Journal for Applied Microbiology and Letters in Applied Microbiology 1996-2006 Editor for Journal of Applied Microbiology and Letters in Applied Microbiology 1999 Awarded W. H. Pierce Memorial Prize by the Society for Applied Microbiology

My research is directed towards applying the techniques of molecular genetics and functional genomics to problems of specific relevance to food safety. In particular, it seeks to address those adaptive responses in foodborne bacterial pathogens that influence pathogenicity and survival in the food chain. In recent years much of my research has focused on Campylobacter jejuni, the leading cause of foodborne illness in the UK, and how this pathogen responds to nitric oxide

Jackson, R.J., Elvers, K.T., Wainwright, L.M., Gidley, M.D., Lightfoot, J., Park, S.F.c., and Poole R.K. (2007) Oxygen reactivity of both respiratory oxidases in Campylobacter jejuni: the “cydAB” genes encode a cyanide-resistant, low-affinity oxidase that is not of the cytochrome bd-type. Journal of Bacteriology 189:1604-1615. Pittman, M.S., Elvers, K.T., Lee, L., Jones, M.A., Poole, R.K., Park, S.F.c., and . Kelly, D.J. (2007) Growth of Campylobacter jejuni on nitrate and nitrite: Electron transport to NapA and NrfA via NrfH and distinct roles for NrfA and the globin Cgb in protection against nitrosative stress. Molecular Microbiology 63: 575-590. Wainwright, L.M., Elvers, K.T., Park, S.F.c. and Poole, R.K. (2005) A truncated haemoglobin implicated in oxygen metabolism by the microaerophilic food-borne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni. Microbiology 151: 4079-4091. Wainwright, L.M., Wang, Y., Park, S.F., Yeh, S.R., and Poole, R.K. (2006) Purification and spectroscopic characterization of Ctb, a group III truncated hemoglobin implicated in oxygen metabolism in the food-borne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni. Biochemistry 45:6003-6011. Elvers, K.T., Turner, S., Penn C.W., and Park, S.F.a (2005) NsrR, a member of the Crp-Fnr superfamily from Campylobacter jejuni, regulates a nitrosative stress-responsive regulon that includes both a single domain and truncated haemoglobin. Molecular Microbiology 57:735-750. Elvers, K.T., Wu, G., Gilberthorpe, N.J, Poole, R.K., and Park, S.F.a (2004) Role of an inducible single-domain hemoglobin in mediating resistance to nitric oxide and nitrosative stress in Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli. Journal of Bacteriology 186:5332-5341.