People

Our research is diverse and interdisciplinary, ranging from arsenic metabolism, to microbial bioleaching and extremophiles, bacteriophages and gut microbiomes.

Group Leader

Joanne Santini, Professor of Microbiology

Postdoctoral Researcher

Maria Stroyakovski: maria.stroyakovski@ucl.ac.uk

PhD Students

Li Cheng

EPSRC CDT in BioDesign Engineering and Folium Bioscience

li.cheng@ucl.ac.uk

Master's Students

Yunlong Huo

MRes Biosciences

yunlong.huo.23@ucl.ac.uk

Alice Xiong

MSci Biochemistry

alice.xiong.20@ucl.ac.uk

Nemean Barber

MSci Biological Sciences

john.barber.20@ucl.ac.uk

News

Our work on Lak2 megaphage out now in iScience.

Lak2 paper graphical abstract

New paper on structure and function of periplasmic arsenate-binding protein ArrX in Biochemistry.

Arsenite-oxidising bacterium NT-26 is officially named Pseudorhizobium banfieldiae in new phylogenomics paper.

Two comment papers with Sarah Edwards, published in The Lancet Microbe, on host range of SARS-CoV-2 and anthroponotic risk of transmission urge for more research on animals as a potential reservoir of SARS-CoV-2.

Mink

Contact Us

Joanne Santini PhD (Professor of Microbiology)

Structural & Molecular Biology
Division of Biosciences
University College London
Darwin Building, Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
Email: j.santini@ucl.ac.uk