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Dr Xue Yuan Pei, 
01223 766020,
xyp20(at)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk,
I joined the BL group in 2005.
I obtained my PhD in protein crystallography from CPE, LMB, MRC, U.K.
Since I joined the BL group, I have worked on a range of protein /RNA crystal structures. I am interested in structural biology
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Dr Kasia Bandyra, 
01223 766020,
kjb69(at)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk,
After completing my Masters in Molecular Biology at the University of Warsaw I joined the Luisi group in 2009 to do my PhD, and stayed as postdoc after finishing with my dissertation in 2013.
I am interested in activity and specificity of RNase E, the major bacterial endoribonuclease, and its involvement in small, non-coding RNA regulation in E. coli and Salmonella.
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Dr Andrzej Szewczak-Harris,
01223 333654,
ams243(at)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk,
After studies in Poznan and Göttingen, I worked in Jan Löwe's group at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. I obtained a PhD in 2015 and continued working as a post-doc with Jan, focussing on electron cryo-microscopy of the bacterial cytoskeleton.
I came to Ben Luisi's group in December 2018. My work here is centered on cryo-EM and structural biology of bacterial efflux pumps.
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Dr Md. Saiful Islam, 
01223 766020,
msi29(at)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk
Originally I am from Bangladesh and completed a Bachelor in Pharmacy (B.Pharm) followed by a Master degree (M.Pharm) in Pharmaceutical Technology at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. In October, 2013, I started working with Professor Chris J. Schofield at the Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford to pursue my D.Phil. program, which focused on structural and functional characterisation of human oxygenases.
In September, 2017, I joined the group of Professor Ben F. Luisi as a research associate to work on the RNase E degradosome machinery. My research interest is to capture the whole degradosome assembly within the in vivo/native condition by using the electron microscopy.
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Dr Kotryna Bloznelyte, 
01223 766029,
kb449(at)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk,
I joined the lab in 2018, following my interest in structural biology and regulation of gene expression. Previously, I did undergraduate Biochemistry at Churchill College, Cambridge and PhD at Imperial College, London, where I used single molecule fluorescence imaging to study the mechanisms of mammalian genome organisation in the nucleus.
Outside the lab, I enjoy running and baking, and aspire to learn coding.
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Dr Miao Ma, 
01223 333654,
mm2303(at)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk,
After obtaining my master's degree in China, I completed my PhD at Université Paris-Sud XI
in Prof. Herman van Tilbeurgh’s group, where I used X-ray crystallography combining other biochemical and biophysical approaches to study the structure of tRNase Z and its interactome from S. cerevisiae.
I joined the Luisi lab in January 2018 to work on the membrane transporters from Mycobacteria, aiming to elucidate the molecular mechanism of drug resistances by cryo-EM and crystallography which will contribute to treatment of tuberculosis.
Outside the lab, I enjoy yoga, dancing and skiing.
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Dr Heather Bruce, 
01223 333654,
hab44(at)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk,
I completed my undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at the University of York. During my final year project - which I thoroughly enjoyed in YSBL - I discovered my passion for structural biology.My PhD focused on the structural and biophysical characterisation of a natively unstructured region in the E. coli RNA degradosome, under the excellent supervision of Professor Ben Luisi in the Department of Biochemistry, here in Cambridge.
I am honoured to return to the group as a Postdoctoral researcher working on cryo electron microscopy studies of a bacterial small regulatory RNA involved in virulence, bound to one of its target mRNAs and the RNA chaperone protein Hfq.
Currently, my hobbies include drawing and reading.
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