Principial Investigator
Dr Matthias Fellner (matthias.fellner@otago.ac.nz)
Current staff members
George Randall – Postdoctoral Fellow – Peptide inhibitor discovery
Shilpa Saseendran Nair – Assistant Research Fellow – Bacterial metabolomics
Malcolm Rutledge – Assistant Research Fellow – Protein & enzyme characterisation
Current PhD students
Caleb Trimble – Colour protein in sea stars; co-supervised by Dr. Nathan Kenny (Biochemistry), Prof. Miles Lamare (Marine Science) and Dr. Suzanne Williams (Natural History Museum, London)
Haziq Anwar – Characterisation of FphD as diagnostic probe for diagnosing and monitoring disease progression of Staphylococcus aureus infections; co-supervised by Dr. Daniel Pletzer (Microbiology and Immunology) and Dr. Andrea Vernall (Chemistry)
You Xiangyan – Targeting Staphylococcus aureus serine hydrolases FphA, FphE and FphH for the development of diagnostic probes; co-supervised by Dr. Daniel Pletzer (Microbiology and Immunology)
Current MSc student
Adrian Isaac Soleil Smith-Beech – Discovery of druggable sites in Pseudomonas aeruginosa universal stress protein UspN; co-supervised by Dr. Daniel Pletzer (Microbiology and Immunology)
Previous lab members
Ianah Rae Clarice Guasch Bitac (Summer student 2023/24) – S. aureus serine hydrolases
Annabel Walsh (Summer student 2022/23) – Received Otago Medical Research Foundation Renshaw Prize 2022-23 for her summer project on S. aureus serine hydrolase FphH