People

We work on the functional evolution of phage defence systems, toxin-antitoxins and proteins that interact with the ribosome, and that are involved in antibiotic resistance and response to stress. Our methods are bioinformatics, microbiology and biochemistry.

Current lab members

Gemma C. Atkinson, Group leader

Bhanu Chouhan, research engineer for LU-Fold

Jose Nakamoto, human PhD student represented by a cat photo

Artyom Egorov, human PhD student represented by a cat photo

Roni Odai, PhD student

Ellie Pursey, post-doc

Zexin li, PhD student

Jiachen Yao, PhD student

Alumni:

Veda Bojar, human project assistant represented by a cat photo

chayan_tatsuaki_named — Tatsuaki Kurata, post-doc
Validation and characterisation of novel toxin-antitoxin systems

Chayan Kumar Saha, PhD student
First developer of FlaGs and webFlaGs

Karin Ernits, post-doc (actually happily still with us in our bigger team along with the Hauryliuk lab!)
Structural analyses of Toxin-Antitoxin systems (co-supervised with Karina Persson and Gerhard Gröbner).

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Victoriia Murina:

Biochemistry of antibiotic resistance conferred by Staphylococcus Aureus Vga(A) and other ABCF ATPases

Tonu Margus, post-doc:

Bioinformatic analyses of yeast ribosome profiling data to understand the role of enigmatic translation factors

Marje Kasari, post-doc:

Marje worked with us on biochemistry and microbiology of Entercoccus faecalis Lsa and other antibiotic resistance ABCF ATPases

We collaborate extensively with the lab of Vasili Hauryliuk