Current Members
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Antoni Wrobel
Principal Investigator
Antoni is a structural and molecular biologist, a group leader at the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Oxford, and a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow. He is also a Stipendary Lecturer at Hertford College.
Antoni started his group at the Oxford Biochemistry Department in late 2024. This is also where he read his undergraduate degree (in Corpus Christi College), doing Part II focused on HIV with Chris Scanlan. He then moved to Cambridge as a Wellcome Trust Infection and Immunity scholar to read PhD (in Churchill College) at the lab of David Owen FRS . Here, he focused on understanding molecular mechanisms of endocytic proteins using mainly crystallography. He then went to the Francis Crick Institute in London for a postdoc with Steve Gamblin FRS and Sir John Skehel FRS, where he studied viral fusion proteins with cryoEM before moving back to Oxford.
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Snezana Vasiljevic
Senior Scientist
Snezana joined the Wrobel lab at its inception, but she worked at the Oxford Biochemistry Department and the Oxford Glycobiology Institute before, first at the Scanlan Lab, then the Crispin Lab, and the Zitzmann Lab. She is a molecular biologist and a protein biochemist and the world-class expert when it comes to working with difficult glycoproteins.
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Harley Phlora
Part II Student
Harley is the first member of the Wrobel lab together with Tremaine. She comes from Magdalen College and joined the lab to study glycoproteins of gamma-coronaviruses.
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Tremaine Sadipe
Part II Student
Tremaine is the first of member of the Wrobel lab together with Harley. He also comes from Magdalen College and his project has focused on understanding the mechanisms governing folding and quality control of viral glycoproteins.
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Advertised Positions
Postdoctoral Fellows
DPhil and MSc Students
Part II and Summer Students
We are currently seeking an ambitious, motivated, and hard-working scientist to join our lab as a postdoctoral research associate.
Your project will focus on understanding how some viruses can change their receptor specificity from glycan- to protein-binding and how the receptor selection may influence the mechanism of viral entry. Answering these questions will help us understand some past pandemics and better prepare for those in future.
This advertisement will close mid-May. More details about the post, responsibilities, and selection criteria can be found by clicking the link in the top right corner above or here: https://tinyurl.com/postdoc-wrobellab. The application needs to be submitted through the above website but please do not hesitate to contact Antoni directly via email (with CV) at antoni.wrobel at bioch.ox.ac.uk with informal enquiries.
We are always keen to hear from people interested in our research, who would like to discuss potential collaborations and fellowship opportunities at the lab. Interested individuals are invited to email antoni.wrobel at bioch.ox.ac.uk with a CV containing contact details of three referees and a cover letter outlining their fit to the group and long-term career goals.
Postgraduate applicants interested in joining the lab should either apply directly through the Department of Biochemistry or one of the DPhil programmes at Oxford. The direct application procedure normally opens in late summer and the details can be found here: https://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/graduate, with the outline of the projects we offer here: https://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/supervisors-and-projects.
We are currently also offering projects to students at the following programmes with independent application procedures:
Skaggs-Oxford DPhil Programme: https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/dphil-biochemistry-outsri
Engineering Biology Centre for Doctoral Training: https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/engineering-biology
Interdisciplinary Life and Environmental Science Programme (ILESLA) Doctoral Training Centre: https://www.ilesla.ox.ac.uk/
Undergraduate students interested in discussing potential research opportunities at the lab should email antoni.wrobel at bioch.ox.ac.uk with a CV containing contact details of two referees and a cover letter outlining their research interests.
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