Dr Deborah Ricci

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Science Technician

School of Science and the Environment

Support Staff (Technicians)

Contact Details

email: d.ricci@worc.ac.uk
tel: 01905 545210

Deborah is part of the Science Technician Team and supports practical work for modules in the School of Science and the Environment. Her specialisms are biochemistry and molecular microbiology with particular interests in enzyme regulation, metalloenzyme biosynthesis and antibiotic resistance pathways.

Qualifications

PhD University of Dundee 1997 Metalloenzyme biosynthesis in E. coli
BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences (Biochemistry) University of Edinburgh 1991
PG Dip. Equine Science University of Wales Aberystwyth 2004
PGCE Secondary Education (Chemistry) University of Worcester 2023
First Aid at Work Certificate (St. Johns Ambulance 2024)

Teaching Interests

Deborah is part of the Science Technician Team providing technical support in laboratory-based practicals.

Membership of Professional Bodies

Association of Science Education.

Publications

Haque, T., Eaves, D. J., Lin, Z., Zampronio, C. G., Cooper, H. J., Bosch, M., Smirnoff, N., and Franklin-Tong, V. E. (2020) Self-incompatibility triggers irreversible oxidative modification of proteins in incompatible pollen. Plant Physiol 183.

Wang, L., Triviño, M., Lin, Z., Carli, J., Eaves, D. J., Van Damme, D., Nowack, M. K., Franklin-Tong, V. E., and Bosch, M. (2020) New opportunities and insights into Papaver self incompatibility by imaging engineered Arabidopsis pollen. J Exp Bot 71.

Eaves, D. J., Haque, T., Tudor, R. L., Barron, Y., Zampronio, C. G., Cotton, N. P. J., de Graaf, B. H. J., White, S. A., Cooper, H. J., Franklin, F. C. H., Harper, J. F., and Franklin-Tong, V. E. (2017) Identification of phosphorylation sites altering pollen soluble inorganic pyrophosphatase activity. Plant Physiol 173.

Chai, L., Tudor, R. L., Poulter, N. S., Wilkins, K. A., Eaves, D. J., Franklin, F. C. H., and Franklin-Tong, V. E. (2017) MAP kinase PrMPK9-1 contributes to the self-incompatibility response. Plant Physiol 174.

Lin, Z., Eaves, D. J., Sanchez-Moran, E., Franklin, F. C. H., and Franklin-Tong, V. E. (2015) The Papaver rhoeas S determinants confer self-incompatibility to Arabidopsis thaliana in planta. Science (1979) 350.

Eaves, D. J., Flores-Ortiz, C., Haque, T., Lin, Z., Teng, N., and Franklin-Tong, V. E. (2014) Self-incompatibility in Papaver: Advances in integrating the signalling network. Biochem Soc Trans.

Eaves, D. J., Chaotheing, S., and Penn, C. W. (2007) Phenotypic analyses of flhF and flhG deletion mutants from C. jejuni NCTC11168. Zoonoses Public Health 54, 58.

Randall, L. P., Eaves, D. J., Cooles, S. W., Ricci, V., Buckley, A., Woodward, M. J., and Piddock, L. J. V. (2005) Fluoroquinolone treatment of experimental Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium DT104 infections in chickens selects for both gyrA mutations and changes in efflux pump gene expression. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 56.

Eaves, D. J., Randall, L., Gray, D. T., Buckley, A., Woodward, M. J., White, A. P., and Piddock, L. J. V. (2004) Prevalence of mutations within the quinolone resistance-determining region of gyrA, gyrB, parC, and parE and association with antibiotic resistance in quinolone-resistant Salmonella enterica. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 48.

Eaves, D. J., Ricci, V., and Piddock, L. J. V. (2004) Expression of acrB, acrF, acrD, marA, and soxS in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium: Role in Multiple Antibiotic Resistance. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 48.

Eaves, D. J., Liebana, E., Woodward, M. J., and Piddock, L. J. V. (2002) Detection of gyrA mutations in quinolone-resistant Salmonella enterica by denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography. J Clin Microbiol 40.

Reid, E., Cole, J., and Eaves, D. J. (2001) The Escherichia coli CcmG protein fulfils a specific role in cytochrome c assembly. Biochemical Journal 355.

Reid, E., Eaves, D. J., and Cole, J. A. (1998) The CcmE protein from Escherichia coli is a haem-binding protein. FEMS Microbiol Lett 166.

Eaves, D. J., Grove, J., Staudenmann, W., James, P., Poole, R. K., White, S. A., Griffiths, I., and Cole, J. A. (1998) Involvement of products of the nrfEFG genes in the covalent attachment of haem c to a novel cysteine-lysine motif in the cytochrome c552 nitrite reductase from Escherichia coli. Mol Microbiol 28.

Eaves, D. J., Palmer, T., and Boxer, D. H. (1997) The product of the molybdenum cofactor gene mobB of Escherichia coli is a GTP-binding protein. Eur J Biochem 246.

Palmer, T., Santini, C. L., Iobbi-Nivol, C., Eaves, D. J., Boxer, D. H., and Giordano, G. (1996) Involvement of the narJ and mob gene products in distinct steps in the biosynthesis of the molybdoenzyme nitrate reductase in Escherichia coli. Mol Microbiol 20.

Technical Roles

University First Aider.