Alicja Dabrawska

PhD (2018)​

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Alicja, who's main supervisor was Prof Scanlan, worked on the interactions of Synechococcus with other co-occurring microbes via secondary metabolites and community determination. Funded by NERC.

Despoina Sousoni

PhD (2019)​

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Despoina studied nutrient cycling between marine microbial phototrophs and bacteria in co-cultures, to better understand how micro-societies function and allow the discovery of new natural products. Funded by NERC (CENTA student).

Amandeep Kaur

PhD (2019)​

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Amandeep looked at how marine micro-organisms interact with each other, specifically studying relationships between phototrophs and heterotrophs by proteomics.

Gabriel Erni-Cassola

PhD (2019)

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Gabriel looked into microbial communities that colonise micro-plastics, and the 'ecology' of plastics in marine environments.​ Funded by NERC (CENTA student).

Robyn Wright

PhD (2019)

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Robyn used artificial selection of whole microbial communities to determine whether we may be able to use them for the degradation of recalcitrant polymers. Funded by BBSRC (MIBTP student).

Vinko Zadjelovic-Varas

PhD (2020)

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Vinko analysed the plastic-degrading organism Alcanivorax and how it is able to degrade both aliphatic polyesters and more recalcitrant plastics. Funded by Becas Chile.

Audam Chhun

PhD (2020)

Audam studied the molecular interactions that occur between marine microbes, and how these can be used to discover novel natural products for biotechnology. Funded by BBSRC (MIBTP student).

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Christian Zerfass 

PDRA (2015-2018)

Christian worked as the PDRA on a collaborative project with Prof Soyer as part of the Synthetic Biology funded centre at Warwick - WISB (BBSRC-EPSRC). He characterised the modular interaction between microbes in synthetic microbial communities. 

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