Catherine Collins
Molecular genetics
Shannon ABC Applied biotechnology centre
Belarus
Biography
Dr Catherine Collins obtained her PhD for investigating the molecular genetics of cellulose degradation in the cellulolytic fungus Talaromyces emersonii at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Since then she has worked on a number of fungal projects both in Ireland and the U.K. including a project at the University of Bristol, England, which was in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline, involving cloning, sequencing and manipulating the genes involved in production of the antibiotic pleuromutilin from the mushroom Clitopilus passeckerianus. Currently she is employed as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Shannon Applied Biotechnology Centre (SABC), Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) for investigating the properties of peat based skin care products.
Research Interest
molecular genetics
