Meet our TEAM
Prof. Christophe Corre
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...
Dan Richmond
Research Assistant
Dan is isolating signalling molecules from Streptomyces and analysing their interactions with receptor proteins in vitro.
Sopida Wongwas
Ph.D. candidate
Sopida is co-supervised by Prof. Chris Corre and Dr. Vasilios Stavros. She is studying the heterologous expression of mycosporine-like amino acid gene clusters in Streptomyces.
Paula Martin de Prado
Ph.D. candidate
Paula is co-supervised by Prof. Chris Corre, Dr. Richard Puxty and Dr. Vasilios Stavros. She is working on the production of mycosporine-like amino acids in cyanobacteria.
Jingfan Zhang
Ph.D. candidate
Jingfan is co-supervised by Prof. 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.
Richard Olumakaiye
Ph.D. candidate
Richard is co-supervised by Prof. Chris Corre and Dr. Fabrizio Alberti. He is researching the biosynthesis of meroterpenoids in fungi.
Esther Fasoyin
Ph.D. candidate
Esther is co-supervised by Dr. Manuela Tosin and Prof. Chris Corre. She is working on the elucidation of a polyketide biosynthetic gene cluster from Rhodococcus erythropolis.
Adam Hunt
Ph.D. candidate
Adam is co-supervised by Prof. Greg Challis and Prof. Chris Corre. He is exploring the therapeutic potential of a novel antibiotic with activity against Enterobacter cloacae
Charles Burgess
Ph.D. candidate
Charles is co-supervised by Dr. Manuela Tosin and Prof. Chris Corre. He is developing chemoenzymatic methods for the production of unnatural products.
Taimoor Khan
Ph.D. candidate
Taimoor is co-supervised by Prof. Chris Corre, Dr. Antonia Sagona, and Prof. Ioannis Nezis. He is isolating novel natural products from Streptomyces and exploring their safety and efficacy in inducing autophagy and anticancer properties