Dr Fabrizio Alberti

UKRI Future Leader Fellow

Fungal natural product discovery and biosynthesis

Website: https://www.alberti-lab.com/

f.alberti@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Blessing Anonye

Research Fellow, Warwick Medical School

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

Dr Nathan Archer

WISB Post Doctoral Research Assistant, School of Life Sciences

N.Archer@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Munehiro Asally

Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences

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

Dr Declan Bates

Professor of Bioengineering, School of Engineering

Co-Director | Theme Lead | SynBio CDT

Developing modelling, simulation, and control system design frameworks for synthetic biological systems.

D.Bates@warwick.ac.uk Website

Dr Anke Becker

Professor of Microbiology, LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Philipps-Universität Marburg

Chair

Bacterial regulatory networks, bacterial genome engineering, DNA assembly, lab automation, symbiotic plant-microbe interactions, exopolysaccharide biosynthesis

Website

Dr Sarah Bennett

Research Technology Facility Manager, WISB

S.Bennett.1@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Alex Broomsgrove

Manager, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Website

Patrick Capel

PhD Student, SynBio CDT

Dr Byron Carpenter

UKRI Future Leader Fellow

Molecular mechanisms of signal transduction by G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs).

B.Carpenter@warwick.ac.uk Website

Dr Greg Challis

Professor of Sustainable Chemistry, Warwick Monash Alliance, Dept. of Chemistry

Theme Lead

Discovery, biosynthesis, mechanism of action and pathway engineering of bioactive microbial natural products.

G.L.Challis@warwick.ac.uk Website

Dr Yin Chen

Reader, School of Life Sciences

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

Dr Joseph Christie-Oleza

Ramon y Cajal, University of the Balearic Islands, Honorary Associate Professor, University of Warwick, School of Life Sciences

Microbial interactions occurring between photosynthetic and heterotrophic marine microbes: culture physiology; molecular pathways; secreted products.

J.Christie-Oleza@warwick.ac.uk Website

Quentin Compton-Bishop

Chief Executive Officer, Warwick Ventures

Dr Christophe Corre

Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences / Dept. of Chemistry

Characterisation of microbial transcriptional regulators that control antibiotic biosynthesis and/or antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

C.Corre@warwick.ac.uk Website

Dr Estelle Dacheux

WISB Post Doctoral Research Assistant, School of Life Sciences

e.dacheux@warwick.ac.uk

Karen Davies

Manager, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Website

Philip Davies

PhD Student, SynBio CDT

Marco Delise

PhD Student, SynBio CDT

Dr Katherine Denby

Professor, Department of Biology, University of York

Re-engineering plant signaling networks to control stress responses and enhance tolerance to environmental conditions.

katherine.denby@york.ac.uk Website

Dr Ana Domingues-Ferreras

WISB Post Doctoral Research Assistant, School of Life Sciences

A.Dominguez-Ferreras@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Franck Escalettes

Head of Biosciences, Ingenza

Website

Dr Mathias Foo

WISB Post Doctoral Research Assistant, School of Engineering

M.Foo@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Ian Fotheringham

Managing Director, Ingenza

Website

Dr Tiantian Fu

WISB Post Doctoral Research Assistant, School of Life Sciences

Dr Elizabeth Fullam

Reader, Sir Henry Dale Fellow, School of Life Sciences

Nutrient uptake and metabolism in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

E.Fullam@warwick.ac.uk Website

Muna Fuyal

PhD Student, SynBio CDT

Dr Sibylle Gaisser

Professor of Biotechnology & Bioprocess Engineering, Ansbach University of Applied Sciences

Production of antibiotics, communication of science and the bioethical assessment of emerging technologies

Website

Dr Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo

Professor, Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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

Dr Miriam Rodriguez Garcia

WISB Post Doctoral Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry and School of Life Sciences

M.Rodriguez-Garcia@warwick.ac.uk

Iulia Gherman

PhD Student, SynBio CDT

Dr Miriam Gifford

Reader, School of Life Sciences

Cell-type specific plant responses to N-fixing mutualist microbes and to pathogens.

miriam.gifford@warwick.ac.uk Website

Dr Steven Servin Gonzalez

WISB Post Doctoral Research Assistant, School of Life Sciences

l.servin-gonzalez@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Murray Grant

Elizabeth Creak chair in Food security, Professor, School of Life Sciences

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

Dr Erin Greaves

MRC Career Development Award Fellow and Assistant Professor, Warwick Medical School

Identifying disease mechanisms of endometriosis using single cell discovery

Erin.Greaves@Warwick.ac.uk

Charlotte Gruender

PhD Student, SynBioCDT

Dr Claes Gustafsson

Chief Commercial Officer, ATUM

Combining machine learning with efficient gene synthesis to engineering biological systems for commercial applications.

Website

Ciaran Guy

PhD Student, SynBioCDT

Dr Risat Haque

WISB Post Doctoral Research Fellow

Risat.Haque@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Amanda Harding

Senior Molecular Biologist, Green Biologics Ltd.

Website

Jack Hassall

PhD Student, SynBio CDT

Dr Daniel Hebenstreit

Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences

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

Jack Ho

PhD Student, SynBio CDT

Dr Chuan Huang

WISB Post Doctoral Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry

C.Huang.7@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Wei-Jie Huang

WISB Post Doctoral Research Assistant, School of Life Sciences

W.Huang.1@warwick.ac.uk

Dr John James

Associate Professor, Warwick Medical School

Using chemical biology and optogenetics to investigate decision-making in immune cells

john.james@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Eleanor Jameson

WISB Research Career Development Fellow

Gut microbiology, quaternary amine metabolism, microbial communities, genetics.

Eleanor.Jameson@warwick.ac.uk Website

Dr Alfonso Jaramillo

Professor of Synthetic Biology, School of Life Sciences | Research Professor, CNRS, France

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

Dr Liz Jenkinson

Chief Technology Officer, Green Biologics Ltd.

Website

Dr Matthew Jenner

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Dept. of Chemistry

Mapping protein-protein interactions in modular polyketide synthases using structural mass spectrometry.

m.jenner@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Xinyun Jian

WISB Post Doctoral Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry

Xinyun.Jian@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Graham Jones

Computer Officer and Data Manager, WISB

Graham.Jones@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Sara Kalvala

Reader, Department of Computer Science

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

Dr Ahmad (Mo) Khalil

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Associate Director, Biological Design Center

Synthetic biology to study the function and evolution of biological networks, and to engineer cellular systems for therapeutic applications.

akhalil@bu.edu Website

Cansu Kuey

PhD Student, SynBio CDT

Dr Vishwesh Kulkarni

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering

Synthetic gene networks for biotech and medical applications: dynamic programmable circuits, biomass maximization, and treatment of infectious diseases.

V.Kulkarni@warwick.ac.uk Website

Dr Manish Kushwaha

WISB Post Doctoral Research Assistant, School of Life Sciences

M.Kushwaha@warwick.ac.uk

Dr James W. Lapworth

Business Development Manager, Warwick Ventures

j.lapworth@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Nicholas Lee

Associate Professor, Director of Research, Centre for Education Studies

Theme Lead

Cultural implications of, and responsible research and innovation in the field of synthetic biology.

N.M.Lee@warwick.ac.uk Website

Laurence Legon

PhD Student, SynBioCDT

Dr Silke Lehmann

WISB Post Doctoral Research Assistant, School of Life Sciences

S.Lehmann@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Victor de Lorenzo

Professor of Research (CSIC), Systems Biology Program, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Madrid

vdlorenzo@cnb.csic.es Website

Dr Jamie Luo

WISB Post Doctoral Research Assistant, School of Engineering

J.Luo@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Ahmad Mannan

WISB Post Doctoral Research Assistant, School of Engineering

Ahmad.Mannan@warwick.ac.uk Website

Dr John McCarthy

Professor of Molecular Systems Biology, School of Life Sciences

Director

Rate control and noise in eukaryotic gene expression. Design strategies and hardware for synthetic biology.

John.McCarthy@warwick.ac.uk Website

Dr Rowan McKibbin

Head of Science Strategy: Exploiting New Ways of Working, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)

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.

Website

Dr Xiang Meng

WISB Post Doctoral Research Assistant, School of Life Sciences

Xiang.Meng@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Binuraj Menon

WISB Research Career Development Fellow

Identification of new halogenated synthetic, natural and non-natural compounds; and further exploitation and synthesis of these compounds.

B.Menon@warwick.ac.uk Website

Dr Navya Menon

Senior Research Technician

Navya.Menon@warwick.ac.uk

Peter Morrison

PhD Student, SynBio CDT

George Muscatt

PhD Student, SynBioCDT

Dr Alexander Nikitin

WISB Post Doctoral Research Assistant, School of Engineering

A.Nikitin@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Adam Noel

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering

Biophysical signal propagation, cellular signal processing, and molecular communication engineering.

adam.noel@warwick.ac.uk Website

Dr Vardis Ntoukakis

Associate Professor, Royal Society Research Fellow, School of Life Sciences

Theme Lead

Plant-microbe interactions including how pathogen perception leads to reprogramming of gene expression.

V.Ntoukakis@warwick.ac.uk Website

Dr Rachel K O'Reilly

FRSC, Professor, Dept. of Chemistry

Materials synthesis, DNA templated reactions and complex bioinspired materials, novel compartmentalisation approaches and catalysis.

Rachel.Oreilly@warwick.ac.uk Website

Dr Anne Osbourn

Director, Norwich Research Park Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy Alliance | Professor & Group Leader, John Innes Centre

Plant natural products – biosynthesis, function, metabolic engineering and mechanisms of metabolic diversification

Website

Nuno Paulino

PhD Student, SynBio CDT

Dr Andrew Phillips

Head of Biological Computation Group, Microsoft Research

Website

Dr Marco Polin

Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics

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

Dr Praneet Prakash

WISB Post Doctoral Research Assistant, School of Life Sciences

Praneet.Prakash@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Satya Prakash

WISB Post Doctoral Research Assistant, School of Life Sciences

satya.prakash@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Kevin Purdy

Reader, School of Life Sciences

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

Dr Richard Puxty

Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences

Rational design of synthetic bacteriophages with defined host-ranges and virulence; regulation and exploitation of photosynthetic electron transfer.

R.Puxty@warwick.ac.uk Website

Alan Reed

PhD Student, SynBioCDT

Dr Fabio dos Santos Rodrigues

WISB Post Doctoral Research Assistant, School of Life Sciences

Fabio.dos-Santos-Rodrigues@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Tailise De Souza Guerreiro Rodrigues

WISB Post Doctoral Research Assistant, School of Life Sciences

Tailise.C.De-Souza-Guerreiro-Rodrigues@warwick.ac.uk

Dr David Roper

Professor in Structural Biology, School of Life Sciences

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

Marlene Rothe

PhD Student, SynBioCDT

Dr Antonia Sagona

Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences

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

Dr Emmanuel de los Santos

WISB Research Career Development Fellow

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

Dr Zoe Schofield

WISB Post Doctoral Research Assistant, School of Life Sciences

Dr Hendrik Schäfer

Reader, School of Life Sciences

Microbial biotech, microbial communities, metagenomics, sulfur cycling, degradation of volatile sulfur compounds, biodegradation of aromatic compounds, methylotrophs.

H.Schaefer@warwick.ac.uk Website

Dr Patrick Schäfer

Ulm University, Honorary Professorial Fellow, School of Life Sciences

Customised regulation of stress-adaptive signalling networks in plants: stress perception and transduction

P.Schafer@warwick.ac.uk Website

Dr Mehrnaz Shamalnasab

Research Technology Facility Manager (MAT), WISB

M.Shamalnasab@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Orkun Soyer

Professor, School of Life Sciences

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

Dr Nigel Stocks

Professor of Engineering / Head of School, School of Engineering

Stochastic nonlinear systems and resonance, biomimetic signal processing, sensory neural coding, auditory ribbon synapse signalling.

N.G.Stocks@warwick.ac.uk Website

Dr Anne Straube

Professor, Warwick Medical School

Understanding self-organisation of the cytoskeleton and microtubule-based transport

A.Straube@Warwick.ac.uk Website

Dr Lauren Swiney

WISB Research Career Development Fellow

Public understanding of science and intuitive reasoning about synthetic biology from the perspective of the cognitive and behavioural sciences.

laurenswiney@gmail.com

Daniel Taylor

PhD Student, SynBioCDT

Dr Eleanor Townsend

Senior Research Technician

eleanor.townsend.1@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Veselina Uzunova

WISB Post Doctoral Research Assistant, School of Engineering

V.Uzunova@warwick.ac.uk

Andrea Martinez Vernon

PhD Student, SynBio CDT

Dr Jason Vincent

Head of Synthetic Biology , Syngenta

Website

Jack Weaver

PhD Student, SynBioCDT

Chris de Wolf

WISB Senior Technician

Dr Christian Zerfass

WISB Post Doctoral Research Assistant, School of Life Sciences

C.Zerfab@warwick.ac.uk

WISB has been funded by the above bodies