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Bioactive Natural Products
Within this research theme, we work more particularly on the following projects:​
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Strategies to turn on silent and cryptic gene clusters for the discovery of new natural products
​ Lab members involved: Daniel Robertshaw, Nazia Auckloo & Valentin Waschulin
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Exploitation of natural products as antimicrobial compounds
​ Lab members involved: Daniel Robertshaw, Matt Harwood & Nazia Auckloo
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Understanding the biological role of natural products in the native micro-organisms
​ Lab members involved: Despoina Sousoni & Audam Chhun
​ Relevant publications: To come
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Engineering metabolic pathways
​ Lab members involved: Fabrizio Alberti, Jack Ho & Chuan Huang
​ Relevant publications: To come
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Heterologous expression of metabolic pathways
​ Lab members involved: Laurence Legon, Jack Weaver, Sopida Wongwas & Paula Martin de Prado
​ Relevant publications: To come
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F. Alberti, D. Leng, I. Wilkening, L. Song, M. Tosin and C. Corre. Triggering the expression of a silent gene cluster from genetically intractable bacteria results in scleric acid discovery. Chem Sci, 2019, doi: 10.1039/C8SC03814G.
