Dr Katherine Williams
PhD, BSC Hons
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Molecular biologist with expertise in bioinformatics, synthetic biology, and biochemistry. I research bioactive fungal natural product discovery through genome mining and synthetic biology techniques to explore chemical space.
Current positions
Honorary Senior Lecturer
School of Biological Sciences
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Biography
Katherine Williams graduated from the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol in 2006. She remained in Bristol to study the genetic engineering of PKS-NRPS enzymes and was awarded her PhD in 2010.
She then moved to the School of Chemistry as a Postdoc in the Bristol Polyketide Group, investigating the biosynthesis of fungal metabolites with interesting bioactive properties. Postdocs at the Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany with Prof Russell Cox, and at Cardiff University with Prof Ruedi Allemann followed.
In 2017, Katherine moved back to the School of Biological Sciences, Bristol, to work with Dr Andy Bailey and Prof Chris Willis, on a project developing a high-throughput heterologous production platform for fungal natural product antibiotic discovery.
Katherine is now a Lecturer in the Pathway 3 team for the School of Biological Sciences, Bristol.