Campylobacter jejuni

Understanding how the molecular machinery of the cell assembles, functions, and evolves

Welcome! We are an interdisciplinary group interested in understanding how molecular machines have evolved, and how they work. To achieve this, we image their structures in the cell using 3-D electron microscopy, and contextualise this structural data against their evolutionary history by analyzing the sequences of their component proteins. Together this enables us to describe how they work, and the forces driving their evolution.

The lab is based at the South Kensington Campus of Imperial College London.

Bacterial flagellar diversity

Bacterial flagellar diversity

Bacterial cell vitrofied for electron cryo-tomography

Campylobacter jejuni model

Campylobacter jejuni model

An electron microscope

An electron microscope

Electron microscopy grid at low magnification

Electron microscopy grid at low magnification

Lego models of bacterial molecular machines

Lego models of bacterial molecular machines

Salmonella minicells

Salmonella minicells