2nd BALO Symposium (2024)
Lauren Speare
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Lauren is an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her work focuses on interbacterial interactions and aims to leverage predation by marine Bdellovibrios as possible probiotics to combat disease in marine animals.
Lab homepage: www.spearelab.com
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Stella Sultan
University of Birmingham, UK
Stella is a PhD student in the Lovering lab. Here, she is characterising predatosome proteins in Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus using structural methods (primarily X-ray crystallography) and other biochemical techniques.
Lab homepage: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/biosciences/lovering-andrew.aspx
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Kim Summers
University of Warwick, UK
Kim is an alumni from the Kreft lab, where she studied population dynamics of Bdellovibrio, prey species and decoys using a combination of chemostat arrays and mathematical modelling. Kim is not currently working with BALOs.
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Janna Wülbern
Kiel University, Germany
Janna is a PhD student in the Schulenburg lab. Her research focuses on understanding the impact of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus predation on microbial community diversity in the host system Caenorhabditis elegans in controlled laboratory conditions.
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/wulbja
Organising committee: 1st Bdello Symposium (2022)
Laura Hobley (Co-organiser)
School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, UK
The Hobley lab uses a multidisciplinary approach to study bacterial interactions, including predation by Bdellovibrio, host-pathogen interactions and biofilm formation by Gram-negative pathogens.
Lab homepage: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/biosciences/people/laura.hobley
Twitter: @HobleyLab
Andrew L. Lovering (Co-organiser)
School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, UK
The Lovering lab uses protein structure function to explain the molecular basis of Bdellovibrio predation and lifestyle; quite often this involves attributing function to cryptic genes.
Lab homepage: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/biosciences/lovering-andrew.aspx
Simona G. Huwiler (Lead organiser)
Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, CH
The Huwiler lab uses ‘OMICS’ technologies to learn about predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus.
Lab homepage: https://www.botinst.uzh.ch/en/research/microbiology/huwiler.html
Twitter: @HuwilerLab