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Team members


Ursula Pyzio

Research Technician
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
Email: ursula.pyzio[a]biology.ox.ac.uk

Ursula is from Poland and supports the Plant Chemetics lab in Oxford with a broad variety of activities.

Dr. Nattapong Sanguankiattichai (Tee)

Postdoc (BBSRC 'Galactosyrin', joined project with Gail Preston)
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
Email: nattapong.sanguankiattichai[a]biology.ox.ac.uk

Tee is from Thailand and works on the biosyntesis of small molecule BGAL1 inhibitor 'Galactosyrin' produced by by Pseudomonas syringae.

Dr. Pierre Buscaill

Postdoc (ERC GreenProteases; BBSRC 'GH35')
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
Email: pierre.buscaill[a]biology.ox.ac.uk

Pierre is from Toulouse, France, and studies the mechanisms of hydrolytic release of immunogenic flagellin fragments.

Ms. Isobel Dodds

D. Phil. student (BBSRC-iCASE with Leaf Expression Systems)
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
isobel.dodds[a]biology.ox.ac.uk

Issy is from the UK and will study the mechanism underlying the increased recombinant protein production in agroinfiltrated plants using three unrelated protease inhibitors.

Dr. Mariana Schuster

Postdoc (BBSRC BB/S003193/1 'Pip1s')
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
mariana.schuster[a]biology.ox.ac.uk

Mariana is from Bogota, Colombia and did her PhD with Prof. Regine Kahmann at MPI Marburg, Germany. She is investigating substrates of the Pip1 immune protease of tomato in the Phytophthora infestans pathosystem.

Ms. Alice Godson

D. Phil. student (BBSRC Interdisciplinary DTC)
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
alice.godson[a]biology.ox.ac.uk

Alice is from the UK and investigates the role of suppressed hydrolases in plant-bacterium interactions.

Ms. Konstantina Beritza

D. Phil. student (BBSRC Interdisciplinary DTC)
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
konstantina.beritza[a]biology.ox.ac.uk

Konstantina is from Larissa, Greece, and studies the proteolytic degradation of antibodies (IgGs) in plants.

Dr. Jie Huang

Postdoc (ERC 'ExtraImmune')
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
jie.huang[a]biology.ox.ac.uk

Jie is from Nanjing, China, and studies the dynamics of secreted plant hydrolases during infection using activity-based proteomics.

Dr. Brian Mooney

Postdoc (ERC 'ExtraImmune')
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
brian.mooney[a]biology.ox.ac.uk

Brian is from Dublin, Ireland, and investigates the plant-pathogen interface using reactivity-based protein profiling (RBPP).

Dr. Chidam Mahadevan

Postdoc (ERC 'ExtraImmune')
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
chidambareswaren.mahadevan[a]biology.ox.ac.uk

Chidam is from Kerala, India, and investigates the plant-pathogen interface using cross-linking mass spectrometry (CLMS).

Dr. Kaijie Zheng

Visiting Postdoc (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
kaijie.zheng[a]biology.ox.ac.uk

Kaijie is from Jilin, China, and studies processing of endogenous proteins in Nicotiana benthamiana.

Dr. Shijian Song

Postdoc (UKRI 21EBTA 'Celfacto')
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
shijian.song[a]biology.ox.ac.uk

Song is from Shandong, China and did his PhD in South Korea. He currently selects protease knockout lines and studies the degradation of IgA and Spike proteins.

Ms. Emma Watts

D. Phil. student (BBSRC-iCASE with Leaf Expression Systems)
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
Email: emma.watts[a]biology.ox.ac.uk

Emma is from Japan/UK and is improving molecular pharming efficiency by controlling immune responses.

Ms. Joy Lyu

D. Phil. student (BBSRC-interdisciplinary DTC)
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
Email: chenqu.lyu[a]biology.ox.ac.uk

Joy is from Shenzhen, China and is studying protein processing during the hypersensitive cell death response.

Ms. Alice Penrose

MBio student (Somerville College)
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
alice.penrose[a]some.ox.ac.uk

Alice is from the UK and studies the role of proteases secreted by Phytopththora infestans with Jie Huang.

Mr. Edan Jackson

MBIO student (LMH)
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
edan.jackson[a]lmh.ox.ac.u

Edan is from the UK and studies the degradation of endogenous secreted proteins in the apoplast of Nicotiana benthamiana with Tee Sanguankiattichai.

Mr. Ieuan Corcoran

Biochem Part-II student (Trinity college)
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
ieuan.corcoran[a]trinity.ox.ac.u

Ieuan is from Blackpool, UK and studies the subcellular localisation of transiently expressed IgG antibodies in agroinfiltrated leaves with Konstantina Beritza.

Mr. Sam Oswald

Biochem Part-II student (St. Annes College)
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
samuel.oswald[a]st-annes.ox.ac.uk

Sam is from the London, UK and studies the variation of transient GFP expression in agroinfiltrated leaves with Shijian Song.

Sarah Rodgers

Floor manager

Caroline O'Brian

Assistant