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')

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 (BBSRC-Bioscience DTP)
Email: sophie.eisele[a]

Ethan Martindale

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

Ethan works on improving the expression of ER-targeted glycoprotein using synthetic biology.

Phoebe Freeston

D.Phil. student (Oxford-John Oldacre Graduate Scholar)

Pippa Threlfall

MBiol student
Email: pippa.threlfall[a]some.ox.ac.uk

Pippa works with Katarina and Jie on AI-guided engineering of immune protease P69B to avoid its inhibition by pathogens.

Gabriele Lukoseviciute

MBiol student
gabriele.likoseviciute[a]st-annes.ox.ac.uk

Gabriele works with Joy on AI-predicted inhibitors of the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici targeting host lipases.

Isabella Mack

Biochemistry Part-II student
isabella.mack[a]univ.ox.ac.uk

Sarah Rodgers

Floor manager

Caroline O'Brien

Assistant

Patty Bowman

Assistant

Carla Huezca

Visiting PhD student (Royal Society)
Email: carla.huezca[a]ibt.unam.mx

Carla is from Cuernavaca, Mexico and studies the plant manipulation by pathogen-secreted expansin effectors.