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
Theme Lead
Discovery, biosynthesis, mechanism of action and pathway engineering of bioactive microbial natural products.
G.L.Challis@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
Cell-type specific plant responses to N-fixing mutualist microbes and to pathogens.
miriam.gifford@warwick.ac.uk Website
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
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 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
Theme Lead
Plant-microbe interactions including how pathogen perception leads to reprogramming of gene expression.
V.Ntoukakis@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
Microbial biotech, microbial communities, metagenomics, sulfur cycling, degradation of volatile sulfur compounds, biodegradation of aromatic compounds, methylotrophs.
H.Schaefer@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
Fungal natural product discovery and biosynthesis
Website: https://www.alberti-lab.com/
f.alberti@warwick.ac.uk
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
Using chemical biology and optogenetics to investigate decision-making in immune cells
john.james@warwick.ac.uk
Mapping protein-protein interactions in modular polyketide synthases using structural mass spectrometry.
m.jenner@warwick.ac.uk
Biophysical signal propagation, cellular signal processing, and molecular communication engineering.
adam.noel@warwick.ac.uk Website
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
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
Understanding self-organisation of the cytoskeleton and microtubule-based transport
A.Straube@Warwick.ac.uk Website
