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Santini Lab

The Santini Lab's core expertise is in microbiology, which we apply to a wide range of areas in a bid to improve our understanding of the interactions between microbes and the environments in which they live.

NT-26 bacterium

We have backgrounds in molecular biology, microbiology, genetics, biochemistry, agricultural and environmental sciences. In collaboration with structural biologists, biophysicists, chemists and geologists in particular, we use an interdisciplinary approach to study how prokaryotes influence, and are influenced by, the environment.

Research Interests

Microbial metabolism, gene regulation, biosensors, extremophiles, bioleaching, transcriptomics, bacteriophages, plasmids, bacterial conjugation.

 

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Contact Us

Joanne Santini PhD (Professor of Microbiology)

Structural & Molecular Biology
Division of Biosciences
University College London
Darwin Building, Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
Email: j.santini@ucl.ac.uk

 

News

Our work on Lak2 megaphage out now in iScience.

Lak2 paper graphical abstract

New paper on structure and function of periplasmic arsenate-binding protein ArrX in Biochemistry.

Arsenate binding protein

Arsenite-oxidising bacterium NT-26 is officially named Pseudorhizobium banfieldiae in new phylogenomics paper.

NT-26 bacterium

Two comment papers with Sarah Edwards, published in The Lancet Microbe, on host range of SARS-CoV-2 and anthroponotic risk of transmission urge for more research on animals as a potential reservoir of SARS-CoV-2. 

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