Fungal natural product discovery and biosynthesis
Website: https://www.alberti-lab.com/
f.alberti@warwick.ac.uk
Developing synthetic microbial community of gut-associated phages as an alternative therapy for recurrent C. difficile infection. Investigating host-pathogen interaction in C. difficile using novel in vitro gut cellular models of infection
B.Anonye@warwick.ac.uk Website
Design principles in bacterial biofilm formation for synbio applications using interdisciplinary approaches including modelling and quantitative time-lapse imaging.
M.Asally@warwick.ac.uk Website
Co-Director | Theme Lead | SynBio CDT
Developing modelling, simulation, and control system design frameworks for synthetic biological systems.
D.Bates@warwick.ac.uk Website
Chair
Bacterial regulatory networks, bacterial genome engineering, DNA assembly, lab automation, symbiotic plant-microbe interactions, exopolysaccharide biosynthesis
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Molecular mechanisms of signal transduction by G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs).
B.Carpenter@warwick.ac.uk Website
Theme Lead
Discovery, biosynthesis, mechanism of action and pathway engineering of bioactive microbial natural products.
G.L.Challis@warwick.ac.uk Website
Microbial diversity, genetics and biochemistry of microorganisms involved in methylated amine and quaternary amine metabolism in the human body and terrestrial and marine ecosystems.
Y.Chen.25@warwick.ac.uk Website
Microbial interactions occurring between photosynthetic and heterotrophic marine microbes: culture physiology; molecular pathways; secreted products.
J.Christie-Oleza@warwick.ac.uk Website
Characterisation of microbial transcriptional regulators that control antibiotic biosynthesis and/or antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
C.Corre@warwick.ac.uk Website
Re-engineering plant signaling networks to control stress responses and enhance tolerance to environmental conditions.
katherine.denby@york.ac.uk Website
Nutrient uptake and metabolism in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
E.Fullam@warwick.ac.uk Website
Production of antibiotics, communication of science and the bioethical assessment of emerging technologies
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Honorary Group Leader
Dynamics of biological circuits at both the single-cell and population levels, in systems ranging from bacteria to the brain
jordi.g.ojalvo@upf.edu Website
Cell-type specific plant responses to N-fixing mutualist microbes and to pathogens.
miriam.gifford@warwick.ac.uk Website
Plant-microbe interactions with a focus on host responses to pathogenic bacteria, biocontrol and plant growth promotion conferred by beneficial fungi.
M.Grant@warwick.ac.uk Website
Identifying disease mechanisms of endometriosis using single cell discovery
Erin.Greaves@Warwick.ac.uk
Combining machine learning with efficient gene synthesis to engineering biological systems for commercial applications.
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Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in metazoan cells, including interplay of epigenetics and transcription, ‘noise’ in gene and protein expression, reorganization of transcriptional networks.
D.Hebenstreit@warwick.ac.uk Website
Using chemical biology and optogenetics to investigate decision-making in immune cells
john.james@warwick.ac.uk
Gut microbiology, quaternary amine metabolism, microbial communities, genetics.
Eleanor.Jameson@warwick.ac.uk Website
Training & Education Lead
Engineering synthetic bacteriophages for phage therapy; engineering new protein and RNA circuits able to sense pathogen signals in living cells.
Alfonso.Jaramillo@warwick.ac.uk Website
Mapping protein-protein interactions in modular polyketide synthases using structural mass spectrometry.
m.jenner@warwick.ac.uk
Application of the Programming Language paradigm and Compiler technology in translating functional requirements on synthetic biological systems. Spatio-temporal modelling of microbial communities.
Sara.Kalvala@warwick.ac.uk Website
Synthetic biology to study the function and evolution of biological networks, and to engineer cellular systems for therapeutic applications.
akhalil@bu.edu Website
Synthetic gene networks for biotech and medical applications: dynamic programmable circuits, biomass maximization, and treatment of infectious diseases.
V.Kulkarni@warwick.ac.uk Website
Theme Lead
Cultural implications of, and responsible research and innovation in the field of synthetic biology.
N.M.Lee@warwick.ac.uk Website
Director
Rate control and noise in eukaryotic gene expression. Design strategies and hardware for synthetic biology.
John.McCarthy@warwick.ac.uk Website
Rowan leads on the synthetic biology, systems biology, data intensive bioscience and technology development portfolios at BBSRC. This includes leading on the delivery of the £102M “Synthetic Biology for Growth” programme on behalf of the Research Councils.
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Identification of new halogenated synthetic, natural and non-natural compounds; and further exploitation and synthesis of these compounds.
B.Menon@warwick.ac.uk Website
Biophysical signal propagation, cellular signal processing, and molecular communication engineering.
adam.noel@warwick.ac.uk Website
Theme Lead
Plant-microbe interactions including how pathogen perception leads to reprogramming of gene expression.
V.Ntoukakis@warwick.ac.uk Website
Materials synthesis, DNA templated reactions and complex bioinspired materials, novel compartmentalisation approaches and catalysis.
Rachel.Oreilly@warwick.ac.uk Website
Plant natural products – biosynthesis, function, metabolic engineering and mechanisms of metabolic diversification
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Microorganismal motility: large scale properties of motion, motility regulation, dynamical properties of cilia and flagella. Integration of quantitative experimental results and mathematical modelling.
m.polin@warwick.ac.uk Website
Fundamentals of microbial ecology, including microbial community structure and function. Study of microbial communities involved in global biogeochemical cycling.
K.Purdy@warwick.ac.uk Website
Rational design of synthetic bacteriophages with defined host-ranges and virulence; regulation and exploitation of photosynthetic electron transfer.
R.Puxty@warwick.ac.uk Website
Molecular basis of microbial physiology for antibiotic resistance and bacterial cell wall biosynthesis. Synthetic and translational approaches to obtain and reengineer pathway intermediates as probes/substrates/inhibitors.
David.Roper@warwick.ac.uk Website
Mechanisms of bacterial infection and phage therapy inside the mammalian cell environment, using cell biology and synthetic biology tools.
A.Sagona@warwick.ac.uk Website
Computational identification of biosynthetic gene clusters that produce natural products. Redesign and modularization of biosynthetic genes for engineering novel natural products.
e.de-los-santos@warwick.ac.uk Website
Microbial biotech, microbial communities, metagenomics, sulfur cycling, degradation of volatile sulfur compounds, biodegradation of aromatic compounds, methylotrophs.
H.Schaefer@warwick.ac.uk Website
Customised regulation of stress-adaptive signalling networks in plants: stress perception and transduction
P.Schafer@warwick.ac.uk Website
Co-Director | Theme Lead | SynBio CDT Associate Director
Engineering signaling and metabolic systems, including microbial communities for anaerobic digestion.
O.Soyer@warwick.ac.uk Website
Stochastic nonlinear systems and resonance, biomimetic signal processing, sensory neural coding, auditory ribbon synapse signalling.
N.G.Stocks@warwick.ac.uk Website
Understanding self-organisation of the cytoskeleton and microtubule-based transport
A.Straube@Warwick.ac.uk Website
Public understanding of science and intuitive reasoning about synthetic biology from the perspective of the cognitive and behavioural sciences.
laurenswiney@gmail.com
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