Alumni
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Dr Michaël Tadesse
PhD student
Michaël completed his BSc in Medical Sciences at the University of Exeter. He then obtained a MSc in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology from the University of Amsterdam and VU Amsterdam. For his PhD (2020-2024), Michaël worked on a project that looked at combining bacteriophages and basidiomycota-derived antibiotics to combat antimicrobial resistance. He worked under the supervision of Antonia Sagona with Fabrizio as his secondary supervisor.
Michaël is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Sagona lab.
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Dr Sophie Jin
PhD student
Sophie graduated from the French engineering school AgroParisTech where she obtained both her BSc and MSc in Biotechnology. She joined the Alberti Lab as a MIBTP PhD student (2020-2024). She worked under the supervision of Fabrizio and Dr Lijiang Song on the discovery of bioactive natural products from fungi of the genus Trichoderma which could lead to the development of biocontrol agents of plant disease.
Sophie was the 2022 recipient of the Brewster Scholarship, which is awarded to a PhD student from the Warwick School of Life Sciences in their second year of research whose work relates to crop improvement.
Sophie now works as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (Jena, Germany).
Dr Jingfan Zhang
Jingfan completed her BSc in Chemistry at Sichuan University, China. She was a visiting student for 5 months at Columbia University, New York City. She completed her MSc by Research with Dr Christophe Corre (primary supervisor) and Fabrizio (secondary supervisor) on a project that aimed to develop new biocatalysts from streptomycete-derived biosynthetic enzymes. Jingfan then completed her PhD with Fabrizio (primary supervisor) and Chris (secondary supervisor) in January 2025, supported by a University of Warwick/China Scholarship Council studentship.
Jingfan now works as Overseas technical support at Beijing SeekGene Biosciences.
PhD student
Richard graduated in Microbiology from Landmark University, Nigeria. He completed his MSc degree from the University of Warwick where he studied Medical Biotechnology & Business Management. For his Master’s project he worked on understanding the biosynthesis of meroterpenoids in Basidiomycota, under Fabrizio's supervision. He went on to do his PhD in the Alberti lab (2020-2024), through which he continued with his research to study the biosynthesis of meroterpenoids in fungi.
Dr Richard Olumakaiye
PhD student
Duha completed her PhD studies on the identification of the mechanism of action of stilbene antibiotics under the supervision of Fabrizio and Dr Nick Waterfield (Warwick Medical School). She then went on to work as a Senior Research Technician in the Alberti lab (maternity cover) for ten months.
Duha is now a Lecturer at the University of Leicester.
Dr Duha Alkhder
PhD student and Senior Research Technician
Jack completed both his BSc in Biotechnology & Microbiology and his MSc in Biotechnology, Bioinformatics and Bio-business at the University of Aberdeen. He completed his SynBio CDT PhD in the Alberti lab (co-supervised by Dr Christophe Corre), studying the biosynthesis of terpenoid natural products in fungi.
Jack now works as an Engineering Biology & Industrial Biotech Policy Officer at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.
Dr Jack Weaver
PhD student
Dr Marlene Rothe
Marlene received her BSc and MSc in Chemistry from ETH Zurich (Switzerland), completing her final MSc project in the Moore lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego. She completed her SynBio CDT PhD in the Challis lab, with Fabrizio serving as her secondary supervisor.
Upon completing her PhD, Marlene joined Novartis (Switzerland) through their Early Talent Program.
PhD student
Mr Liam Cribbin
Liam was a final year Medicinal Chemistry student, in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Liam joined the Alberti lab in June 2021 to complete a 8 week mini project, thanks to funding from the Royal Society of Chemistry. His project involved using CRISPR/Cas9 to delete a transcriptional regulator involved in the biosynthesis of scleric acid.
Upon completing his degree, Liam joined the Senge group at Trinity College Dublin to pursue his PhD.
Visiting BSc student
