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 student

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)

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