People

Tatiana Dimitriu (PI)

Tatiana is an evolutionary microbiologist, interested in the horizontal transmission of mobile genetic elements in bacteria. She grew up and studied in France around Paris, where she obtained her PhD in 2014, studying the social evolution of horizontal gene transfer, under the supervision of Francois Taddei. She moved to the UK in 2015 for a first postdoc with Ben Raymond, starting in Imperial College London then moving to Cornwall (Penryn campus, University of Exeter) in 2016, to study the evolution of virulence in the biocontrol agent Bacillus thuringiensis. She then stayed in Cornwall for a second postdoc with Edze Westra, working on the interaction between CRISPR-Cas, antibiotics and phages. She started her own lab in St Andrews in 2024 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow.

In her spare time, she has an inordinate fondness for reading fiction and playing the piano, and more recently discovering the joys of gardening – when the Scottish weather permits.

Anja Nenninger (Research Assistant)

Nivi Pulavan (PhD student)