Bad Bugs; New Drugs
Phage Biologist
Research focuses on bacteriophage biology, phage lysis systems and phage therapy. I specialize in the discovery of ssRNA phages to understand their diversity and study the small lysis proteins they encode. Interested in phage hunting, prokaryotic genomics, metagenome mining and understanding phage evolution.
Studying the future of phage-derived protein antibiotics.
‘Phage Therapy’ advocate.
“Science has no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence”
-Louis Pasteur
The mechanism of bacterial killing by small peptides. My study is on the small lysis proteins (“Single Gene Lysis”) carried by RNA phages that can kill the bacteria through different mechanisms. The lysis protein-induced cells show different physiological changes such as bleb formation, filamentation or cytoplasmic vacuolization.
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