Streptomyces Genetics and Development
Centre for Protein Engineering, University of Liège, Belgium
Our Team
Loïc Martinet, Matthias Craig, Marta Maciejewska, Samuel Jourdan, Elodie Tenconi, and Sébastien Rigali.
Post Doc Members
Elodie Tenconi (2009-2017)
Research topics
Signal transduction and development of Streptomyces
1. N-acetylglucosamine utilization and DasR regulon in streptomycetes
2. Bald mutants of S. coelicolor
Anticancer antibiotics produced by Actinobacteria
1. The cytotoxicity of prodiginines for S. coelicolor
2. Search for novel Anticancer agents produced by Actinobacteria
Aymeric Naomé (2016-2017)
Research topics
Bioinformatics, Genome mining,
and Global regulatory networks
1. Creation a browser for mining genomes of actinobacteria
2. Creation of the new and online version of PREDetector
3. De novo identification of cis-acting elements in actinobacteria
4. Identification of pathways to antibiotic production
PhD students
Samuel Jourdan (2012-2016)
Research topics
Mechanism associated with the pathogenicity of
Streptomyces scabies
1. Expression control of thaxtomin production
2. Signal transduction of thaxtomin production
3. Regulatory networks associated with thaxtomin production
Marta Maciejewska (2012-2016)
Research topics
Cave Microbiology
1. Search for novel actinobacteria
from moonmilk speleothems
2. Role of actinobacteria in speleogenesis
3. Antibiotics produced by karstic actinobacteria
Loïc Martinet (2016-2020)
Research topics
Cave Microbiology
1. Search for novel actinobacteria
from moonmilk speleothems
2. Role of actinobacteria in speleogenesis
3. Antibiotics produced by karstic actinobacteria
Undergraduate students
Delphine Adam (2015-2016)
Sinaeda Anderssen (2016-2017)
Benoit Deflandre (2016-2017)
Former members
Jean Dusart (1939-2012)
(1939-2012)
Jean Dusart, our friend and former leader of the 'Strepto Group', passed away on July 17, 2012. He was one of the founding members of the CIP and, for many of us, he was more a friend than just a colleague.
In a gentle but rigorous way, Jean mentored many young scientists who obtained their doctorates under his direction. Most of his former PhD students greatly appreciated his permissive and, at the same time, paternal way of supervising. He managed to generate a competition-free working atmosphere where all members could freely develop their own project. Freedom and an ideal working environment for his PhD students was Jean’s major priority as supervisor, far before his own ambition.