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Grant Success, New Papers, Conference Presentations & Exciting Developments

Alisha Stones and Max Richardson, new Kelly Lab PhD students since Oct 2025. Good energy and great work already from both!

August 2025: We were awarded a £500k ARIA Programmable Plants Seed Award. Read more about it here: https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/news/aria-programmable-plants/

Delighted to have Ikenna and Ivan in the group for their MSc projects. They’re working away on evolving strains for bioremediation of agricultural soils.

Congratulations Dr Melissa Poma on your PhD graduation ceremony on Wed 16th of July

Congratulations Dr Emma Riley on your PhD graduation held on Fri 11th of July

Ciarán attended the EPSRC Early Career Forum in Engineering quarterly meeting in June 2025