Dr. Christophe Corre

Associate professor

Initially trained as a Biochemist Biochemistry / Molecular Biologist (University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France), I moved to the United Kingdom in 2000 to start working on antibiotic biosynthesis in Streptomyces bacteria for which I was awarded a PhD in Chemistry (University of Exeter, UK) in 2004.

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Since then, I have worked at the University of Warwick first as a postdoctoral researcher, then as a Royal Society University Research Fellow, and now as an Associate Prof. in Synthetic Biology; jointly appointed between the School of Life Sciences and the Department of Chemistry.

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Our research group works at the interface of biology and chemistry. We are particularly interested in transcriptional regulators, bioactive natural products and biocatalysts in bacteria. Micro-organisms are the most creative chemists and we cannot work without them...

Dr. Fabrizio Alberti

Independent Research Fellow

For his Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, Fabrizio is developing a yeast cell factory for the production and study of high value meroterpenoids made by higher fungi and plants.

Dr. Chuan Huang

Research Fellow

Chuan is working on yeast-mediated biosynthetic gene clusters capturing and editing.

Panward Prasongpholchai

Ph.D. candidate

Panward (aka Pan) is co-supervised by Dr. Chris Corre and Dr. Manuela Tosin. She is investigating secondary lipid metabolite assembly in bacteria.

Audam Chhun

Ph.D. candidate

Audam is co-supervised by Dr. Chris Corre and Dr. Joseph Christie-Oleza. He is studying the molecular interactions occuring between marine microbes to discover novel natural products for biotechnology.

Jack Ho

Ph.D. candidate

Rohini Ajaykumar

Ph.D. candidate

Rohini is researching cyclotide molecules and their bioactivity/function.

Daniel Robertshaw

Ph.D. candidate

Daniel is working towards discovering the natural products of the Rhodococcus genus.

Valentin Waschulin

Ph.D. candidate

Valentin is co-supervised by Dr. Chris Corre and Prof. Elizabeth Wellington. He is working on the discovery of novel antibiotic biosynthetic gene clusters in soil microbial communities.

Patrick Capel

Ph.D. candidate

Patrick is co-supervised by Dr. Chris Corre and Dr. Emzo de Los Santos.

Daniel Taylor

Ph.D. candidate

Daniel is working to characterize the components of the complex regulatory gene network controlling methylenomycin expression in Streptomyces coelicolor.

Nazia Auckloo

Ph.D. candidate

Nazia is developing a high-throughput approach for the discovery of novel antibiotics,

and is mining bacterial genomes for the discovery of novel mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs)

Matthew Harwood

Ph.D. candidate

Matt is working towards isolating novel natural products from Actinobacteria.

Jessica Furner-Pardoe

Ph.D. candidate

Jessica is co-supervised by Dr. Chris Corre and Dr. Freya Harrison.

Laurence Legon

Ph.D. candidate

Laurence is using metabolic modeling and genome engineering to improve bacterial sunscreen synthesis.

Jack Weaver

Ph.D. candidate

Jack is co-supervised by Dr. Chris Corre and Dr. Fabrizio Alberti. He is working on expressing high value meroterpenoids in heterologous hosts.

Jingfan Zhang

Ph.D. candidate

Jingfan is co-supervised by Dr. Chris Corre and Dr. Fabrizio Alberti. She is developing the enzymes from the biosynthetic pathway of scleric acid into biocatalysts that can be used to generate a library of scleric acid analogues.

Adam Cowden

Ph.D. candidate

Adam is co-supervised by Dr. Chris Corre and Dr. Vasilios Stavros, working on the chemical synthesis of new classes of sunscreens and their characterisation using ultrafast spectroscopy.