Group Members

Principal Investigator


Dr Stefano Pagliara
email: s.pagliara@exeter.ac.uk



Research Fellows

Dr Urszula Lapinska
email: U.Lapinska@exeter.ac.uk








Dr Maureen Micaletto
email: M.Micaletto@exeter.ac.uk









Dr Ilayda Sultan Donmez Eryilmaz
email: S.Donmez-Eryilmaz@exeter.ac.uk







PhD Students

Ka Kiu Lee
email: kkl204@exeter.ac.uk







Megan Fletcher
email: mf616@exeter.ac.uk









Samuel Krauss
email: sk759@exeter.ac.uk








MRes Students

Jilly Woodward
email: pjw227@exeter.ac.uk






Stefano Pagliara



Urszula Lapinska



Maureen Micaletto



Maureen Micaletto



Ka Kiu Lee



Megan Fletcher



Samuel Krauss



Jilly Woodward



The aim of my research is to study molecular transport across biological membranes with the goal of understanding how this links with single cell responses to changes in the environment and the emergence of antimicrobial resistance in bacterial populations.


Ula is investigating the mechanisms underlying antibiotic accumulation in polymicrobial communities as part of the ERC Consolidator project DYNBIOTICS, in collaboration with Prof Mark Blaskovich at the University of Queensland and Prof Krasi Tsaneva-Atanasova.



Maureen is investigating the mechanisms underlying the interactions between phage and antibiotics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa as part of the BBSRC sLoLa MultiDefence project.





Ily is developing new technologies to interrogate bacterial responses to antibiotics at the level of the individual bacterium as part of the ERC Consolidator project DYNBIOTICS.





Ka Kiu is investigating the transcriptional and translational mechanisms underlying antibiotic accumulation, in collaboration with Prof Mark Blaskovich at the University of Queensland, Prof Krasi Tsaneva-Atanasova and Dr Ben Housden.



Megan is studying novel antibiotic-phage combinations for treating bacterial infections such as meliodosis, in collaboration with Dstl and Prof Sunee Korbsrisate at the University of Mahidol.





Samuel is investigating phage-bacteria interactions at the single-cell level in collaboration with Prof Mark Blaskovich and Dr Patrick Harris at the University of Queensland.






Jilly is studying antibiotic tolerance and persistence in Yersinia species in collaboration with Dstl.









Alumni (Name, Position, Next Destination)

Postdocs
Dr Benoit Pons, Postdoctoral research fellow (2019-2024), Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Exeter
Krina Chawla, Research Technician (2022-2023)
Dr Georgy Glover, Postdoctoral research associate (2022), Epidemiology and information analyst at UKHSA
Dr Jehangir Cama, Postdoctoral research fellow (2019-2022), Co-Founder and Director, ArtioSense
Dr Yuewen Zhang, Postdoctoral research associate (2019-2020), Postdoctoral Research Associate, National Physical Laboratory
Dr Zehra Kahveci, Postdoctoral research associate (2017-2019), Postdoctoral Research Associate, Spanish National Research Council
Dr Aaron Jeffries, Postdoctoral research fellow (2017), Senior Research Fellow, Biosciences, University of Exeter
Dr Rosie Bamford, Postdoctoral research associate (2015-2017), Research Technician, Medical School, University of Exeter
Dr Jeremie Poschmann, Postdoctoral research fellow (2016), Research scientist, University of Nantes

PhD Students
Adrian Campey, PhD student (2019-2024), Department of Health and Social Care Advisor
Olivia Goode, PhD student (2018-2022), Postdoctoral research associate, University of Exeter
Georgy Glover, PhD student (2018-2022), Postdoctoral research associate, University of Exeter
Brandon Tuck, PhD student (2019-2023), Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Nottingham
Jake Binsley, PhD student (2019-2023), Product innovation engineer, Osler Diagnostics
Erin Attrill, PhD student (2018-2022), Medical Writer, Emotive
Rikke Morrish, PhD student (2017-2021), Information Specialist, ProPharma Group
Elizabeth Martin, PhD student (2017-2021), Advanced health intelligence analyst, NHS
Ashley Smith, PhD student (2015-2019), Research Software Engineer, BioSystems Technology Ltd
Francesco Valente, PhD student (2016-2020), Senior Research Scientist in Bio-Imaging at Lig-Nanowise
Tobias Lutz, PhD student (2015-2019), Postdoctoral research associate, Physics, University of Exeter
Yizhou Tan, PhD student (2014-2018)

MbyRes students
Sara Castillo-Vila, MbyRes student (2020-2022), PhD student candidate, University of Mallorca
Jesmine Ahmed, MbyRes student (2018-2020), Associate microbiologist, GSK
Agnieszka Kaczmar, MbyRes student (2017-2019), Research technician, University of Exeter
Simona Frustaci, MbyRes Student (2015-2017), PhD student candidate, Physics, University of Exeter

Undergraduate students (wet lab projects)
Caroline Winkel, Final year BSc Biosciences project student (2022-2023)
Freya Williamson, Final year MSc Biosciences project student (2021-2022)
Charlotte Harvey, Final year BSc Natural Sciences project student (2021-2022)
Justine Locmele, Final year BSc Natural Sciences project student (2021-2022)
Filipe Maia, Final year BSc Natural Sciences project student (2021-2022)
Ellen Rogers, Final year BSc Biosciences project student (2021-2022)
Aaron Walker, Final year MSc Natural Sciences project student (2019-2020)
Jesmine Tomlinson, Final year MSc Biosciences project student (2020-2021)
Ka Kiu Lee, Final year BSc Biosciences project student (2019-2020), PhD student candidate, Biosciences, University of Exeter
Louis Clement-Harris, Final year MSc Natural Sciences project student (2019-2020)
Natalie Cotterell, MSc Natural Sciences project student (2019-2020)
James Cridland, Summer student (2019), MSc Natural Sciences, University of Exeter
Rhiannon Haigh, Summer student (2019), MSc Natural Sciences, University of Exeter
Finn Merlett, Final year MSc Natural Sciences project student (2018-2019)
Thomas Ledgerwood, Final year MSc Natural Sciences project student (2018-2019)
Emma Baker, Final year BSc Natural Sciences project student (2019)
Samuel Wallace, Final year BSc Biosciences project student (2018-2019)
Hanro Rossouw, Final year BSc Biosciences project student (2018-2019)
Katherine Webber, Final year BSc Biosciences project student (2017-2018), PhD student candidate, Physics, University of Cambridge
Alice Carr, Final year MSc Natural Sciences project student (2017-2018), PhD student candidate, Medical School, University of Exeter
Paloma Marsolo, Final year BSc Biosciences project student (2017-2018)
Chris Smith, Final year BSc Biosciences project student (2016-2017)
Georgy Glover, Final year BSc Biosciences project student (2016-2017), PhD student candidate, Physics, University of Exeter
Laura Elliott, Final year BSc Natural Sciences project student (2017), Teacher training
Paula Usackaite, Final year Bioscience project student and summer placement (2015-2016), Admin and Marketing Executive, Creative Nature Superfoods
Matt Georgiu, Final year BSc Biosciences project student (2015-2016), Biosciences, University of Exeter
Agnieszka Kaczmar, Summer placement student (2015-2016), Open University
Ashley Smith, Final year BSc Biosciences project student (2015-2016), PhD student candidate, Biosciences, University of Exeter
William Ball, Part III project student (Cavendish Laboratory, 2013-2014)
Floris Keizer, Part II summer student (Cavendish Laboratory, 2014), PhD Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Emma Moffatt, Part II summer student (Cavendish Laboratory, 2014), MSc in Biophysics and Molecular Life Sciences, University of Bristol

Visiting students
Giulia Tolle, Visiting student (2023), PhD student, University of Cagliari Bing Zhang, Visiting student (2019), PhD student, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
Sophie Vacant, Visiting student (2019), MSc Observatoire Oceanologique de Banyuls sur mer
Rhia Stone, Visiting student (2019), PhD student, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
Michele Corezzi, Summer student (2017), MSc in Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen
Yash Bathi, Summer placement student (2016), Master of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

News

  • 8-September-2023: Congratulations Erin! New paper out at ISME Communications
  • 10-April-2023: Congratulations Ula! New paper out at PLoS Biology
  • 7-June-2022: Congratulations Ula! New paper out at eLife