Speakers
Plenary
Laura Lehtovirta-Morley is a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow and an Associate Professor. She has been at the University of East Anglia since 2017 and prior to starting her independent research group, she was a PhD student and a postdoc at the University of Aberdeen. Laura also spent some time working at the Oregon State University and the University of Alberta and her proudest career moment is getting her work into Brock’s Biology of Microorganisms.
Laura's group research the interplay between the environment, ecology, physiology and process rates of ammonia oxidation. They focus on the molecular and physiological mechanisms that underpin the adaptation of ammonia oxidisers to their environment. Using both cultivation-independent and cultivation-dependent approaches, much of her work focuses on the model organisms Nitrosocosmicus and Nitrosotalea, which are terrestrial ammonia oxidising archaea.