Area of research
Molecular Biology · Pharmacology
Research interest
Research interests include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction, and Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis.
antiSMASH 8.0: extended gene cluster detection capabilities and analyses of chemistry, enzymology, and regulation
Crop root bacterial and viral genomes reveal unexplored species and microbiome patterns
Breaking into nature's secret medicine cabinet: lichens – a biochemical goldmine ready for discovery
Substrate utilization and cross-feeding synergistically determine microbiome resistance to pathogen invasion
Diverse rhizospheric <i>Bacillus</i> are required for protection against a leaf pathogen
Empowering natural product science with AI: leveraging multimodal data and knowledge graphs
Microbial assimilatory sulfate reduction-mediated H2S: an overlooked role in Crohn’s disease development
Taxonomic resolution of different 16S rRNA variable regions varies strongly across plant-associated bacteria
Discovery and Derivatization of Tridecaptin Antibiotics with Altered Host Specificity and Enhanced Bioactivity
antiSMASH 7.0: new and improved predictions for detection, regulation, chemical structures and visualisation
Artificial intelligence for natural product drug discovery
Maize resistance to witchweed through changes in strigolactone biosynthesis
MIBiG 3.0: a community-driven effort to annotate experimentally validated biosynthetic gene clusters
Generating lineage-resolved, complete metagenome-assembled genomes from complex microbial communities
Disentangling the genetic basis of rhizosphere microbiome assembly in tomato
Integrative omics approaches for biosynthetic pathway discovery in plants
The tomato cytochrome <scp>P450 CYP712G1</scp> catalyses the double oxidation of orobanchol <i>en route</i> to the rhizosphere signalling strigolactone, solanacol
Towards the sustainable discovery and development of new antibiotics
Mining genomes to illuminate the specialized chemistry of life
The gutSMASH web server: automated identification of primary metabolic gene clusters from the gut microbiota
Linking genomics and metabolomics to chart specialized metabolic diversity
A computational framework to explore large-scale biosynthetic diversity
The Natural Products Atlas: An Open Access Knowledge Base for Microbial Natural Products Discovery
MolNetEnhancer: Enhanced Molecular Networks by Integrating Metabolome Mining and Annotation Tools
Comprehensive mass spectrometry‐guided phenotyping of plant specialized metabolites reveals metabolic diversity in the cosmopolitan plant family Rhamnaceae
Structure and function of the global topsoil microbiome
HEx: A heterologous expression platform for the discovery of fungal natural products
A Pressure Test to Make 10 Molecules in 90 Days: External Evaluation of Methods to Engineer Biology
HEx: a heterologous expression platform for the discovery of fungal natural products
antiSMASH 4.0—improvements in chemistry prediction and gene cluster boundary identification