Meet our TEAM
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
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.
Rohini Ajaykumar
Ph.D. candidate
Rohini is researching cyclotide molecules and their bioactivity/function.
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)
Patrick Capel
Ph.D. candidate
Patrick is co-supervised by Dr. Chris Corre and Dr. Emzo de Los Santos.
