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 excellent plant care and a broad variety of activities.

Konstantina Beritza

D. Phil. student (BBSRC Interdisciplinary DTC)
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
Email: 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)
Email: 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)
Email: 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. 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.

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.

Joy Lyu

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

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

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.

Nora Liu

D. Phil. student (iCASE with Kyomei)
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
Email: yinuo.liu[a]biology.ox.ac.uk

Nora is from Shanghai, China and investigates the development of alternative protein expression platform through agroinfiltration of other plant species.

Dr. Victoria Armer

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

Victoria is from the UK and works with Jie and Brian on the validation of AI-predicted extracellular interactions between secreted proteins of Pseudomonas syringae and secreted hydrolases of Nicotiana benthamiana that are suppressed during infection.

Dr. Katarina van Midden

Postdoc (BBSRC)
Tel: +44 1865 275122 (office)
Tel: +44 1865 275811 (lab)
Email: katarina.vanmidden[a]biology.ox.ac.uk

Katarina is from Slovenia and studies antagonistic arms races between AI-predicted inhibitors secreted by tomato pathogens and the apoplastic P69 immune proteases of tomato.

Sarah Rodgers

Floor manager

Caroline O'Brien

Assistant

Patty Bowman

Assistant