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.

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.

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.

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.

Dr. Jerry (Tianrun) Li

Postdoc (ERC 'Extraimmune')

Jerry is from Anhui, China, and works on extracellular interactions between Pseudomonas syringae and Nicotiana benthamiana.

Emma Watts

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

Joy is from Shenzhen, China and studies AI-predicted inhibitors of Zymoseptoria tritici that target secreted wheat hydrolases.

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.

Sophie Eisele

D. Phil. student
Interdisciplinary Bioscience DTP (BBSRC)
Lorna Casselton Memorial Scholar

Email: sophie.eisele[a]biology.ox.ac.uk

Sophie is from Germany and investigates apoplastic protein–protein interactions using integrative bioinformatics.

Ethan Martindale

D. Phil Student (BBSRC-Interdisciplinary DTP)
Email: ethan.martindale[a]stx.ox.ac.uk

Ethan is from Hertfordshire, UK and works on improving the expression of ER-targeted glycoproteins by synthetic biology.