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.
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.