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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 Pseudomonas syringae.

Dr. Pierre Buscaill

Postdoc (ERC GreenProteases; BBSRC 'GH35'; BBSRC 'Galactosyrin')
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. 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

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

Kaijie is from Jilin, China, and studies the processing of the Covid Spike protein in Nicotiana benthamiana.

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.

Dr. Felix Homma

Postdoc (ERC ExtraImmune)
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
Email: felix.homma[a]biology.ox.ac.uk

Felix is from Germany and returned to the lab as a postdoc to perform more AlphaFold Multimer screens at the plant-pathogen interface.

Ms. Maria Minnone

MBiochem. student (with Brian Mooney)
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
Email: maria.minnone[a]stcatz.ox.ac.uk

Maria works with Brian and is validating AI-predicted candidate inhibitors of P. syringae that might target secreted hydrolase of N. benthamiana that are suppressed during infection.

Dr. Yuge Li

Visiting Scientist (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
Email: yuge.li[a]biology.ox.ac.uk

Yuge is from the South China Botanical Garden in Guangzhou, China, and studies immune signalling triggered upon extracellular pathogen perception.

Mr. Evan Slater

MBiol. student (with Jie Huang)
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
Email: evan.slater[a]some.ox.ac.uk

Evan works with Jie to study the arms race of Phytophthora infestans Kazal-like inhibitor Epi1 with P69B paralogs and orthologs.

Mr. Xavier St John

MBiochem. student (with Emma Watts)
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
Email: xavier.stjohn[a]sjc.ox.ac.uk

Xavier works with Emma and studies the perception of Agrobacterium tumefaciens through peptidoglycan receptors.

Sarah Rodgers

Floor manager

Caroline O'Brian

Assistant