Title | Funder | Award start | Award end |
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Conditions of use agreement with University of Tubingen for bacterial strain | Universitat Tübingen | 01 Jul 2021 | 30 Jun 2024 |
SIMBA: signal Propagation and Information in Microscale Biological Applications | EPSRC | 01 May 2021 | 31 Oct 2023 |
BBSRC Mid-range Equipment ALERT 2021 Application - November 2021 | BBSRC | 01 Aug 2022 | 31 Jul 2023 |
Terahertz skinometer for improved cancer prevention and treatment | EPSRC | 01 Apr 2019 | 31 Dec 2022 |
Early Career Fellowship costed extension for Dr Fabrizio Alberti (linked to Ideate 58035 Engineering a yeast cell factory for production of valuable meroterpenoids) | Leverhulme Trust | 01 Nov 2021 | 31 Jan 2022 |
Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance Training Network | European Commission | 01 Jan 2018 | 31 Dec 2021 |
Developing a Cell Free Transcription-Translation Engineering Platform for Natural Product Research. iCASE studentship with Syngenta under Synbio CDT | Syngenta Ltd | 25 Nov 2018 | 24 Nov 2021 |
Engineering a yeast cell factory for production of valuable meroterpenoids. Early Career Fellowship for Dr Fabrizio Alberti | Leverhulme Trust | 01 Nov 2018 | 31 Oct 2021 |
19 Alert mid-range Equipment Initiative: equipment to upgrade the 600 NMR console at the NMR facility. | BBSRC | 01 Nov 2020 | 31 Mar 2021 |
Warwick Integrative Synthetic Biology Centre (WISB) | BBSRC | 14 Nov 2014 | 31 May 2020 |
Novel inducible gene expression systems based on furan inducers and the MmfR transcriptional rerpessor | BBSRC | 01 Jun 2015 | 30 Apr 2019 |
Genome mining of marine bacteria for novel bioactive natural products 2016 China NSFC Costshare | Royal Society | 01 Mar 2017 | 30 Mar 2019 |
16ALERT: Mid-Range Equipment Initiative: A high sensitivity triple quadruple mass spectrometer coupled to an ultra-high pressure liquid chromatograph system for quantitative analysis | BBSRC | 01 Jul 2017 | 30 Jun 2018 |
Discovery of antimicrobials active against Clostridium difficile from actinomycete gene clusters. MLSRF bursary for Dr Fabrizio Alberti | Medical and Life Sciences Research Fund | 01 Jun 2017 | 30 Nov 2017 |
Developing World Scholarship for Attah Francis Alfred Unuagbe: Characterising and exploiting putative antimicrobial cyclotides from Rinorea dentata used in Nigerian ethnomedicine | Royal Society of Chemistry | 01 Oct 2016 | 31 Dec 2016 |
Characterising and exploiting cyclotides from Nigerian ethnomedicinal plants | EPSRC | 01 Aug 2016 | 01 Dec 2016 |
Establishing the potential of biosynthetic urea-synthetases as industrial biocatalysts | BBSRC | 01 May 2016 | 31 Oct 2016 |
Exploiting microbial genomics and synthetic biology for discovery of novel antibiotics | BBSRC | 01 Sep 2013 | 30 Sep 2016 |
New Chemical Keys to unlock microbial antibiotics- University Research Fellowship (supplement) | Royal Society | 10 Apr 2014 | 30 Sep 2015 |
New Chemical Keys to unlock microbial antibiotics- URF (Supplemental) | Royal Society | 22 Feb 2013 | 30 Sep 2015 |
New Chemical Keys to unlock microbial antibiotics- URF (Supplemental) | Royal Society | 25 Jan 2012 | 30 Sep 2015 |
New Chemical Keys to unlock microbial antibiotics- University Research Fellowship | Royal Society | 01 Oct 2010 | 30 Sep 2015 |
New Chemical Keys to unlock microbial antibiotics- University Research Fellowship | Royal Society | 01 Oct 2010 | 30 Sep 2015 |
Co-crystallisation of transcriptional repressors and synthetic oligonucleotides | Royal Society | 01 Apr 2012 | 31 Mar 2014 |
New Chemical Keys to unlock microbial antibiotics- URF (Supplemental) | Royal Society | 21 Nov 2011 | 30 Sep 2012 |
International travel grant- Chemistry and Health | Royal Society | 04 Jun 2011 | 10 Jun 2011 |
Elucidation of the Unusual Methylenomycin Biosynthetic Pathway in Streptomyces Coelicolor. | BBSRC | 01 Jul 2006 | 30 Jun 2009 |
Dr Christophe Corre

Associate Professor (Reader)
Email: c.corre@warwick.ac.uk
Phone: 024 765 23557
Office: D026
Twitter: @CorreLabo
link to personal webpage
Research Clusters
Quantitative, Systems & Engineering Biology
Warwick Centres and GRPs
Warwick Integrative Synthetic Biology Centre (WISB)
Warwick Antimicrobial Interdisciplinary Centre (WAMIC)
Warwick Environmental Systems Interdisciplinary Centre (WESIC)
Vacancies and Opportunities
For PhD and postdoctoral opportunities, and interest in potential collaborations, please contact me at the above email address.
Research Interests
Our research group work on three directly related research themes:
- Bacterial Transcriptional Regulators: We investigate the molecular mechanisms by which bacteria control the biosynthesis of natural products. With this aim in mind, we characterise (in vivo and in vitro) and exploit different families of transcription factors that regulate the expression of gene clusters that direct the assembly of these natural products.
- Bioactive Natural Products: Our detailed understanding of such regulatory systems then opens the way to the discovery of new bioactive natural products from gene clusters which are typically silent in the laboratory environment. Indeed, we have been able to rationally inactivate specific transcriptional repressor genes and/or overexpress transcriptional activators to discover novel antibiotic-like molecules.
- Biocatalysts: The structural diversity of such natural products relies on the activity of specialised/unique sets of enzymes able to assemble these complex structures. These proteins can be developed and exploited as biocatalysts for the manufacture of high value chemicals.
Research: Technical Summary
- Reader, University of Warwick (2021 - present)
- Associate Professor, University of Warwick (2015 - 2021)
- Assistant Professor, University of Warwick (2013 - 2015)
- Royal Society, University Research Fellowship (2010 - 2016)
- Wellcome Trust, Value in People Research Fellowship (2009-2010)
- Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Warwick (2004-2009)
- PhD student in Chemical Biology, University of Exeter (2000 - 2004)