Dr Richard Puxty

Associate Professor

Email: R.Puxty@warwick.ac.uk

Phone: 024 7615 0373

Office: B177

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Research Clusters

Environment & Ecology

Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Quantitative Systems & Engineering Biology

果冻传媒 Centres and GRPs

Habitability GRP

Food GRP

Energy GRP

Vacancies and Opportunities

For PhD and postdoctoral opportunities, and interest in potential collaborations, please contact me at the above email address.

Research Interests

Microbes catalyse the majority of biogeochemical transformations of elements on Earth. They also encompass the vast majority of our planet's genetic potential. My lab focuses on characterising this genetic potential in bacteria. Particularly we are interested in how bacteria acquire the resources they need to grow and to stave off predation by viruses?

Research: Technical Summary

Biography

BSc, Marine Biology with Oceanography, University of Southampton 2009
MSc, Marine Biology, University of Southampton 2010
PhD, 果冻传媒, 2014
Research Fellow, Univeristy of California, Irvine, 2014-2016
Research Fellow, Univeristy of 果冻传媒, 2016-2020
Assistant Professor, Univeristy of 果冻传媒, 2020-

Publications

Michniewski, Slawomir, Glenny, Rebecca, Kinsella, Andrew, Porter, Kane, Wright, Kayne, Harrison, Sophie, Ugokwe, Nzubechukwu I, Alrashidi, Amani, Rashid, Srwa.J., Eke, Chisomaga

(2026) Microbial Genomics, 12 (4). 001672. doi: ISSN 2057-5858.

Cabello鈥怸eves, Pedro J., Picazo, Antonio, Rochera, Carlos, Morant, Daniel, Vicente, Eduardo, Scanlan, David J., Puxty, Richard J. and Camacho, Antonio (2025) Limnology and Oceanography, 70 (7). pp. 1849-1866. doi: ISSN 1541-5856.

Torcello-Requena, Alberto, Murphy, Andrew R. J., Lidbury, Ian D. E. A., Pitt, Frances Diana, Stark, Richard Jan, Millard, Andrew D., Puxty, Richard J., Chen, Yin and Scanlan, David J. (2024) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121 (20). e2312892121. doi: ISSN 0027-8424.

Rihtman, Branko, Torcello-Requena, Alberto, Mikhaylina, Alevtina, Puxty, Richard J., Clokie, Martha R. J., Millard, Andrew D. and Scanlan, David J. (2024) The ISME Journal . doi: ISSN 1751-7362.

Sands, Elizabeth, Wynne Davies, Si芒n Elizabeth, Puxty, Richard John, Verg茅, Valerie, Bouget, Francois-Yves, Scanlan, David J. and Carr茅, Isabelle A. (2023) Journal of Experimental Botany, 74 (21). pp. 6773-6789. doi: ISSN 0022-0957.

Puxty, Richard J. and Millard, Andrew D. (2023) Current Opinion in Microbiology, 71 . 102245. doi: ISSN 1369-5274.

Liyanagedera, Sahan B. W., Williams, Joshua, Wheatley, Joseph P., Biketova, Alona Yu, Hasan, Muhammad, Sagona, Antonia P., Purdy, Kevin J., Puxty, Richard J., Feher, Tamas and Kulkarni, Vishwesh V. (2022) ACS Synthetic Biology, 11 (10). pp. 3330-3342. doi: ISSN 2161-5063.

Cabello-Yeves, Pedro J., Scanlan, David J., Callieri, Cristiana, Picazo, Antonio, Schallenberg, Lena, Huber, Paula, Roda-Garcia, Juan J., Bartosiewicz, Maciej, Belykh, Olga I., Tikhonova, Irina V., Torcello-Requena, Alberto, De Prado, Paula Martin, Millard, Andrew D., Camacho, Antonio, Rodriguez-Valera, Francisco and Puxty, Richard J. (2022) The ISME Journal, 16 . pp. 2421-2432. doi: ISSN 1751-7362.

Cabello-Yeves, Pedro J., Callieri, Cristiana, Picazo, Antonio, Schallenberg, Lena, Huber, Paula, Roda-Garcia, Juan J., Bartosiewicz, Maciej, Belykh, Olga I., Tikhonova, Irina V., Torcello-Requena, Alberto, De Prado, Paula Martin, Puxty, Richard J., Millard, Andrew D., Camacho, Antonio, Rodriguez-Valera, Francisco and Scanlan, David J. (2022) BMC Biology, 20 . 175. doi: ISSN 1741-7007.

Rihtman, Branko, Puxty, Richard John, Hapeshi, Alexia, Lee, Yan-Jiun, Zhan, Yuanchao, Michniewski, Slawomir, Waterfield, Nicholas R., Chen, Feng, Weigele, Peter, Millard, Andrew D., Scanlan, David J. and Chen, Yin (2021) Current Biology, 31 (14). 3199-3206.e4. doi: ISSN 0960-9822.

Aguilo-Ferretjans, Maria del Mar, Bosch, Rafael, Puxty, Richard J., Latva, Mira, Zadjelovic, Vinko, Chhun, Audam, Sousoni, Despoina, Polin, Marco, Scanlan, David J. and Christie-Oleza, Joseph A. (2021) Nature Communications, 12 (1). 1857. doi: ISSN 2041-1723.

Puxty, Richard John, Evans, David J., Millard, Andrew D. and Scanlan, David J. (2018) ISME Journal, 12 . 1273-1286 . doi: ISSN 1751-7362.

Puxty, Richard J., Millard, Andrew D., Evans, David J. and Scanlan, David J. (2016) Current Biology, 26 (12). pp. 1585-1589. doi: ISSN 0960-9822.

Puxty, Richard John, Perez-Sepulveda, Blanca, Rihtman, Branko, Evans, David J., Millard, Andrew D. and Scanlan, David J. (2015) PLoS One, Volume 10 (Number 7). pp. 1-13. Article number e0132642. doi: ISSN 1932-6203.

Puxty, Richard John, Millard, Andrew D., Evans, David J. and Scanlan, David J. (2014) Photosynthesis Research, 126 (1). pp. 71-97. doi: ISSN 0166-8595.

Research Projects

Title	Funder	Award start	Award end
Addressing environmental challenges: NERC highlight topics 2022 - Quantifying the impact of anthropogenic nutrient imbalance on C flux from freshwater lakes: cellular mechanisms, community assembly and modelling	NERC	01 December 2022	30 November 2026
Exploring the genetic 'alphabet' of the Virosphere (The Royal Society Research Grants)	Royal Society	31 January 2022	30 January 2023
Facile directional immobilization of bacteriophage on to PDMS for rapid and compliant point of care diagnostics (MLS Research Fund Bursary for Sahan Liyanagedera)	Medical and Life Sciences Research Fund	01 August 2021	31 March 2022

Teaching / Student Supervision

I am happy to receive enquires about PG Research projects in my group, please contact me at the above email address.

I supervise Year 3 Independent Research Projects, URSS and MBio projects. These are usually wet-lab practicals centred around molecular cloning, molecular microbiology and microbial physiology. I also have a range bioinformatics projects for UG students.