Tim Skvortsov

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Open to PhD applications in the following areas:
- Synthetic biology and genetic engineering of bacteriophages and their proteins
- Structural biology of phage enzymes with antibacterial and antibiofilm properties, including endolysins and depolymerases
- Phage therapy
- Viromics and mobilomics
- Microbiome analysis and manipulation
- Microbial bioinformatics
- Biology and genomics of bacteriophages and viruses of archaea
- Metatranscriptomics of biofilms
- Horizontal gene transfer in biofilms
- Antimicrobial discovery
- Discovery and engineering of biocatalysts