Staff Profile
Dr Jess Buttress
Research Associate
- Email: jess.buttress@ncl.ac.uk
- Personal Website:
- Address: Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology
Biosciences Institute
Âé¶¹´«Ã½
Baddiley-Clark Building
Richardson Road, Âé¶¹´«Ã½ upon Tyne
NE2 4AX
I am a Research Associate in Professor Henrik Strahl's lab and my work focuses on microbiology, microscopy and antibiotic mode of action. Currently, I am part of a wider BBSRC sLoLa consortium, headed by Professor Gavin Thomas at the University of York, investigating the biological function of an ancient universal membrane effector system. I use a combination of bacterial genetics, fluorescence microscopy, and biochemistry on the Gram-positive model organism Bacillus subtilis to decipher the mechanism by which these widely conserved IM30 proteins respond to and protect against cell envelope-targeting antibiotics.
Education
- PhD in Microbiology, "Membrane-targeting antimicrobials as promising resistance-breaking antibiotic candidates", Âé¶¹´«Ã½ (2018-2022)
- BSc in Pharmacology with Industry, University of Leeds (2014-2018)
- Teaching in the undergraduate module Professional and Practical Skills for Bioscientists - CMB1011
- Supervision of BSc, MRes, Erasmus, and PhD research projects
Past students:
Chris Duringer (MRes)
Alisa Mondry (Erasmus)
Neha Ramchandani Ramchandani (BSc)
Edmond Kelly (BSc)
Current students:
Neha Ramchandani Ramchandani (PhD)
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Articles
- Buttress JA, Schäfer A-B, Koh A, Wheatley J, Mickiewicz K, Wenzel M, Strahl H. . Nature Communications 2025, 16, 10320.
- Mets T, Kurata T, Ernits K, Johansson MJO, Craig SZ, Evora GM, Buttress JA, Odai R, Coppieters't Wallant K, Nakamoto JA, Shyrokova L, Egorov AA, Doering CR, Brodiazhenko T, Laub MT, Tenson T, Strahl H, Martens C, Harms A, Garcia-Pino A, Atkinson GC, Hauryliuk V. . Cell Host and Microbe 2024, 32(7), 1059-1073.e8.
- Ernits,K,Saha,CK,Brodiazhenko,T,Chouhan,B,Shenoy,A,Buttress,JA,Duque-Pedraza,JJ,Bojar,V,Nakamoto,JA,Kurata,T,Egorov,AA,Shyrokova,L,Johansson,MJO,Mets,T,Rustamova,A, Dzigurski,J,Tenson,T,Garcia-Pino,A,Strahl,H,Elofsson,A,Hauryliuk,V,Atkinson,GC. . PNAS 2023, 120(33), 2305393120.
- Gohrbandt M, Lipski A, Grimshaw JW, Buttress JA, Baig Z, Herkenhoff B, Walter S, Kurre R, Deckers-Hebestreit G, Strahl H. . EMBO Journal 2022, 41, e109800.
- Malanovic N, Buttress JA, Vejzovic D, Ön A, Piller P, Kolb D, Lohner K, Strahl H. . Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2022, 88(10), e00180-22.
- Kurata T, Saha CK, Buttress JA, Mets T, Brodiazhenko T, Turnbull KJ, Awoyomi OF, Alves Oliveira SR, Jimmy S, Ernits K, Delannoy M, Persson K, Tenson T, Strahl H, Hauryliuk V, Atkinson GC. . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2022, 119(6), e2102212119.
- Buttress JA, Halte M, te Winkel JD, Erhardt M, Popp PF, Strahl H. . Microbiology 2022, 168(9), 001227.
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Book Chapter
- Humphrey M, Abdelmesseh Nekhala I, Scheinpflug K, Krylova O, Schäfer A-B, Buttress JA, Wenzel M, Strahl H. . In: Peter Sass, ed. Antibiotics. New York: Humana, New York, NY, 2022, pp.203-229.