Having worked with Enterococcus hirae and Lactococcus lactis for many years, I provides expertise on all aspects of the work with these bacteria,
including cultivation, electroporation, membrane or protein isolation, etc. I also support
our PhD students in technical aspects of molecular biology and biochemistry and try to keep
the lab in good working condition.
My work entails the large scale purification
of proteins involved in copper homeostasis in Enterococcus hirae or Lactococcus lactis for structural work, the cloning of copper homeostatic genes, and miscellaneous molecular biology and biochemistry projects.
Services
Helicobacter pilory is a causative agent of gastric ulcers. This bacterium can be assayed in the stomach by means of its urease activity. For this, patients ingest 13C-urea, which is converted to
13CO2 by the urease. I run 13C mass spectrometry to measure the 13CO2 exhaled by patients.
Last update: January 2009
