Meet our TEAM
Prof. Christophe Corre
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 Dan Richmond
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dan is optimising the heterologous expression of mycosporine-like amino acid in Strepetomyces to scale-up production for industrial applications.
Dr Manuel Godoy
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Manuel works with Prof. Chris Corre, Prof. John McCarthy, Dr Alexander Darlington and Dr Fabrizio Alberti and focuses on combinatorial biosynthetic pathway engineering in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, using a fungal polyketide pathway as a model.
Taimoor Khan
Ph.D. candidate
Taimoor is co-supervised by Prof. Chris Corre, Dr Antonia Sagona, and Prof. Ioannis Nezis. He is isolating novel natural products from Streptomyces and exploring their safety and efficacy in inducing autophagy and anticancer properties.
Abbie Lewis
Ph.D. candidate
Abbie is co-supervised byProf. Chris Corre and Dr Fabrizio Alberti. She is using CRISPRi to find novel signalling hormones in Streptomyces.
Sepideh Bourenjanshirazi
Ph.D. candidate
Sepideh is co-supervised by Prof. Chris Corre, Dr Alexander Darlington, and Dr Fabrizio Alberti. She is using model-guided metabolic engineering to produce E. coli cell factories for pharmaceutical and industrial applications.
Abinaya Seetha Raman
Ph.D. candidate
Abinaya is co-supervised by Prof. Chris Corre and Dr Fabrizio Alberti, and is collaborating with Hypha Discovery. She is focussing on mining biocatalysts from microorganisms for industrial biocatalysis applications.