Professor van der Woude is a Professor of Microbiology, based at the University of York. She is part of the York Biomedical Research Institute (YBRI) and the Experimental Medicine and Biomedicine group at Hull York Medical School, with labs integrated with those of EMB and Biology colleagues.
She is Chair of the HYMS Postgraduate Research Board (until Oct 2024), is on the management board for the MRC DiMeN2 DTP, and is active nationally and internationally as editor, reviewer and research council panel member.
Marjan is a member of the Experimental Medicine and Biomedicine research group.
The success of a bacterial species depends on its ability to grow and survive in a changing and potentially hostile environment. This requires adaptation at both the single cell and population level. We are particularly interested in understanding the success of populations of bacterial pathogens and how that is impacted by phenotypic heterogeneity. This also has led to an interest in the role and structure/function relationship of proteins impacting phenotypic heterogeneity, including enzymes that modify surface carbohydrates like LPS. Our work is collaborative, working with immunologists, physicists, mathematicians, biochemists, and clinical researchers, both internal and external to the University. The lab’s microbiology knowledge and expertise supports a range of research activities across the University and disciplines, including on novel diagnostics, antimicrobial targets and antimicrobial therapies.
Further information is available from the York Research Database.
I contribute to the MBBS programme at the Hull York Medical School with lectures and a SSIP on microbiology. I welcome enquiries to supervise research projects for students intercalating in biology at York.
I contribute to the Biomedical Sciences BSc and iMSc programmes at York, which is a jointly owned programme between Hull York Medical School and Biology, and am an academic supervisor.
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