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Lauren Speare<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Georgia Institute of Technology, <\/em><\/em>USA <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lauren<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her work focuses on interbacterial interactions and aims to leverage predation by marine Bdellovibrios<\/em> as possible probiotics to combat disease in marine animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lab homepage: www.spearelab.com<\/a>
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Stella Sultan<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

University of Birmingham, UK<\/em><\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stella <\/strong>is a PhD student in the Lovering lab. Here, she is characterising predatosome proteins in Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus<\/em> using structural methods (primarily X-ray crystallography) and other biochemical techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lab homepage: https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/biosciences\/lovering-andrew.aspx<\/span> <\/a>
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Kim Summers<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

University of Warwick, UK<\/em><\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim<\/strong> is an alumni from the Kreft lab, where she studied population dynamics of Bdellovibrio<\/em>, prey species and decoys using a combination of chemostat arrays and mathematical modelling. Kim is not currently working with BALOs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Janna W\u00fclbern<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Kiel University<\/em>, Germany<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Janna<\/strong> is a PhD student in the Schulenburg lab. Her research focuses on understanding the impact of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus <\/em>predation on microbial community diversity in the host system Caenorhabditis elegans <\/em>in controlled laboratory conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lab homepage:
Twitter: http:\/\/twitter.com\/wulbja<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Laura Hobley<\/mark><\/mark> (Co-organiser)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, UK<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hobley lab uses a multidisciplinary approach to study bacterial interactions, including predation by Bdellovibrio<\/em>, host-pathogen interactions and biofilm formation by Gram-negative pathogens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lab homepage: https:\/\/www.nottingham.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/laura.hobley<\/a><\/span><\/mark>
Twitter: <\/mark><\/a><\/strong>@HobleyLab<\/span><\/mark><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Andrew L. Lovering<\/mark> (Co-organiser)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, UK<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lovering lab uses protein structure function to explain the molecular basis of Bdellovibrio<\/em> predation and lifestyle; quite often this involves attributing function to cryptic genes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Simona G. Huwiler<\/mark> (Lead organiser)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, CH<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Huwiler lab uses ‘OMICS’ technologies to learn about predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lab homepage: https:\/\/www.botinst.uzh.ch\/en\/research\/microbiology\/huwiler.html<\/span><\/a>
Twitter: @HuwilerLab<\/span><\/mark><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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