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 Benoit Pons
email: b.pons@exeter.ac.uk
PhD Students
Adrian Campey
email: ac793@exeter.ac.uk
Ka Kiu Lee
email: kkl204@exeter.ac.uk
Krina Chawla
email: kc678@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
Visiting Students
Giulia Tolle
email: gt409@exeter.ac.uk
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 and efficacy in polymicrobial communities (in collaboration with Prof Krasi Tsaneva-Atanasova).
Benoit is investigating the mechanisms underlying phage resistance in individual Pseudomonas cells (in collaboration with Prof Stineke van Houte and Prof Edze Westra).
Adrian is investigating the evolutionary consequences on bacterial communities of continued exposure to low antibiotic concentrations (in collaboration with Prof Krasi Tsaneva-Atanasova and Dr Mark Blaskovich).
Ka Kiu is investigating the transcriptional and translational mechanisms underlying antibiotic accumulation (in collaboration with Prof Krasi Tsaneva-Atanasova and Dr Ben Housden).
Krina is studying antibiotic uptake and efflux in the highly impermeable Burkholderia species (in collaboration with Dstl).
Megan is studying novel antibiotic-phage combinations for treating bacterial infections such as meliodosis (in collaboration with Dstl and Prof Krasi Tsaneva Atanasova).
Samuel is investigating phage-bacteria interactions at the single-cell level (in collaboration with Prof Krasi Tsaneva-Atanasova and Dr Mark Blaskovich at the University of Queensland).
Jilly is studying antibiotic tolerance and persistence in Yersinia species.
Giulia is a PhD student visiting our lab for six months to carry out lipidomics analysis of bacterial membranes in collaboration with Pierluigi Caboni at the University of Cagliari.
Alumni (Name, Position, Next Destination)
Postdoctoral Research Associates
Dr Georgy Glover, Associate Research Fellow (2022), Associate Research Fellow, University of Exeter
Dr Jehangir Cama, Research Fellow (2019-2022), Co-Founder and Director, ArtioSense Limited
Dr Yuewen Zhang, Associate Research Fellow (2019-2020), Postdoctoral Research Associate, National Physical Laboratory
Dr Zehra Kahveci, Associate Research Fellow (2017-2019), Postdoctoral Research Associate, Spanish National Research Council
Dr Aaron Jeffries, Associate Research Fellow (2017), Senior Research Fellow, Biosciences, University of Exeter
Dr Rosie Bamford, Associate Research Fellow (2015-2017), Research Technician, Medical School, University of Exeter
Dr Jeremie Poschmann, Associate Research Fellow (2016), Research scientist, University of Nantes
PhD Students
Olivia Goode, PhD student (2018-2022), Associate Research Fellow, University of Exeter
Georgy Glover, PhD student (2018-2022), Associate Research Fellow, University of Exeter
Brandon Tuck, PhD student (2019-2023)
Jake Binsley, PhD student (2019-2023)
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)
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), Associate Research Fellow, 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
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
External collaborators
Exeter links
External links
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
