Biochemistry

What I do:

• In my research group, we study the host-pathogen cell biology of obligate intracellular bacteria, focussing on organisms within the order Rickettsiales.
• My lab has been partly based at Mahidol University/MORU in Thailand since 2013

What do I do?

I study the structural biology of enzymes involved in bacterial virulence of Pseudomonas spp.

Research Interests:

• Protein Crystallography

• Computational drug design

• Inhibitor design for bacterial enzymes

Key Projects:

• Identification of LsrK kinase Inhibitors to target quorum sensing (University of Eastern Finland, 2020)

What do I do?

I catalogue ecological relationships and potential spatial separations between cystic fibrosis airway microbiome species from a hybrid method of statistics, mathematical modelling and time-series data of clinical and laboratory samples.