Investigator / Supervisor details

NameProfessor Nigel Minton
Current InstitutionUniversity of Nottingham
Current DepartmentSchool of Life Sciences
Institution websitehttp://www.nott.ac.uk
Previous Institutions

Current Awards

ReferenceTitleAward RoleValue £Type
BB/S009833/1 CARBON RECYCLING: CONVERTING WASTE DERIVED GHG INTO CHEMICALS, FUELS AND ANIMAL FEED (CCnet). Principal Investigator 834,460 Research Grant
BB/T010630/1 19-ERACoBioTech: Sustainable Production of n-Butanol by Artificial Consortia Through Synthetic and Systems Biology Approaches (SynConsor4Butonal) Principal Investigator 386,784 Research Grant
BB/T01718X/1 ABSCICS: Applied Bacterial Spore Control in Industrial and Clinical Settings Principal Investigator 202,011 Research Grant
BB/V019414/1 Live 3D Confocal Imaging in real time with high throughput, multipoint, targeted acquisition and AI-assisted quantification Co-investigator 773,682 Research Grant
BB/W01453X/1 21EBTA: NO CARBON LOST - ELIMINATING CO2 PRODUCTION FROM FERMENTATION PROCESSES Principal Investigator 1,518,370 Research Grant
BB/W018721/1 CANADA: NO LOST CARBON - the transition to Net Zero Principal Investigator 51,021 Research Grant
BB/X01150X/1 MEDIEVAL BLUE GENES: Reducing Industrial Indigo Dye Pollution of the Environment Principal Investigator 303,651 Research Grant

Completed Awards

ReferenceTitleAward RoleValue £Type
BB/D522289/1 Development of intergrative technology for gene inactivation in Clostridium difficile Principal Investigator 199,304 Research Grant
BB/D522797/1 Initiation of endospore formation in clostridia Principal Investigator 187,191 Research Grant
BB/E021271/1 Metabolic engineering for improved solvent production by Clostridium acetobutylicum Principal Investigator 643,519 Research Grant
BB/F003390/1 System biology of Clostridium acetobutylicum - a possible answer to dwindling crude oil reserves Principal Investigator 364,436 Research Grant
BB/G016224/1 Second Generation Sustainable Bacterial Biofuels Principal Investigator 2,127,704 Research Grant
BB/G017395/1 Engineering biobutanol production in a cellulosic clostridium using synthetic biology principles Principal Investigator 74,410 Training Grants
BB/G017964/1 Bioenergy - BBSRC Targeted Priority Studentships Co-investigator 223,230 Training Grants
BB/G530341/1 Improving Biobutanol production by solventogenic clostridia Principal Investigator 26,518 Research Grant
BB/H531394/1 BBSRC Industrial CASE Partnership Grant Principal Investigator 73,110 Training Grants
BB/I004475/1 Systems biology of the butanol-producing Clostridium acetobutylicum: new source of biofuel and chemicals/COSMIC2 Principal Investigator 452,694 Research Grant
BB/I016562/1 Development of a Commercially Viable Itaconic Acid Fermentation Process Co-investigator 91,932 Training Grants
BB/J013838/1 DEVELOPING A CEREAL STRAW BIOREFINERY USING RICE AS A MODEL AND A FEEDSTOCK Co-investigator 50,000 Research Grant
BB/J019828/1 UK - Vietnam Workshop on Biofuels Co-investigator 7,200 Research Grant
BB/J020095/1 International Bioenergy Workshop São Paulo State, Brazil Spring 2012 Co-investigator 10,000 Research Grant
BB/J020427/1 Towards process development of bacterial strains able to convert renewables into biofuels and other useful chemical commodities Principal Investigator 27,385 Research Grant
BB/K00283X/1 GASCHEM: Optimising industrial gas fermentation for commercial low-carbon fuel & chemical production through systems and synthetic biology approaches Principal Investigator 2,396,136 Research Grant
BB/K013297/1 The use of forward and reverse genetics to select Clostridium strains more tolerant to biobutanol and cellulosic feedstock inhibitors. Principal Investigator 93,520 Training Grants
BB/K020358/1 RICEFUEL: Engineering enzymes, bacteria and bioconversion processes for advanced biofuels from waste grain straw Principal Investigator 1,393,966 Research Grant
BB/L000105/1 Rational Engineering of Advanced Clostridia for Transformational Improvements in Fermentation (REACTIF) Principal Investigator 368,068 Research Grant
BB/L004356/1 13TSB_SynBio- Novel Bacterial Hosts for Biobutanol Production Principal Investigator 246,156 Research Grant
BB/L01081X/1 Utilising Steel Mill 'Off-Gas' for Chemical Commodity Production using Synthetic Biology Principal Investigator 25,510 Research Grant
BB/L013800/1 C1NET: CHEMICALS FROM C1 GAS Principal Investigator 642,979 Research Grant
BB/L013827/1 Multidisciplinary Super Resolution Microscopy Facility at Nottingham University Co-investigator 735,267 Research Grant
BB/L013940/1 SBRC NOTTINGHAM: Sustainable Routes to Platform Chemicals Principal Investigator 14,242,856 Research Grant
BB/L016478/1 Improving the available Bioparts for process engineering of a Geobacillus chassis Principal Investigator 94,126 Training Grants
BB/L502030/1 GASCHEM: Optimising industrial gas fermentation for commercial low-carbon fuel & chemical production through systems and synthetic biology approaches. Principal Investigator 282,960 Training Grants
BB/M012336/1 High throughput intermediate scale sequencing for the Midlands Co-investigator 280,212 Research Grant
BB/M025896/1 ERA-IB 5: Biological conversion of CO2 to the platform chemical 3-hydroxypropanoic acid Principal Investigator 520,110 Research Grant
BB/M027740/1 Accelerating Synthetic Biology Approaches to Renewable Chemicals and Fuels Principal Investigator 51,021 Research Grant
BB/N010701/1 Engineering Bacteria to Convert Methane to Poly Unsaturated Fatty Acids (PUFA) Principal Investigator 124,477 Research Grant
BB/N022718/1 MaxBio - Maximizing Conversion Yields in Biorefining Principal Investigator 521,654 Research Grant
BB/R013241/1 The construction of a robust genome scale model of Eubacterium limosum Principal Investigator 2,547 Research Grant
BB/R021503/1 17-ERACoBioTech: Sustainable production of added value chemicals from SynGas-derived methanol through Systems and Synthetic Biology approaches Principal Investigator 426,521 Research Grant
BB/S011951/1 Newton Bhabha Industrial Waste: Valorising Waste from Sugar Cane Industries via Innovations in Pretreatment, Biotransformation and Intensification Co-investigator 1,012,481 Research Grant
BB/T017619/1 Spectral Flow Cytometry for the Midlands Co-investigator 395,786 Research Grant
BBS/OS/GC/000003 SAFE-HERB: Sustainable Production from C1 Gas of Safer Herbicides for Developing Countries Principal Investigator 20,000 Research Grant
BBS/S/C/2004/12613 Gene regulation in Clostridium botulinium:role of quorum sensing (Funded via Training Grant BB/B512059/1) Principal Supervisor Studentships
BBS/S/P/2003/10420 Development of genetic tools to facilitate the exploitation of clostridial genome information Principal Supervisor 53,013 Studentships
E13746 The development of genetic systems to facilitate the exploitation of clostridium genome information Principal Investigator 175,466 Research Grant
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