Dr Vuong Le

I am a postdoc research fellow at the Living Systems Institute, the University of Exeter, UK. I am interested in the biology of the antibiotics, plasmids and bacteriophage and the applications thereof. At Exeter, I have been working on the interaction between plasmid-dependent filamentous phage and bacterial host using cryo-EM and microfluidic systems.

I obtained the BSc degree in Biotechnology from the University of Nottingham, UK, and my PhD in Biochemistry from Massey University, New Zealand. My PhD research involved exploring the synergistic interaction between antimicrobial agents for efficient antibacterial therapies and characterizing the genetic/molecular mechanism of antibiotic resistance. I continued as a postdoc researcher at Massey University to develop a rapid SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic assay based on filamentous phage nanotechnology during the pandemic. I then joined the Section of Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, to employ fluorescently engineered plasmid-dependent phage to study the dynamic of conjugative plasmids with advanced metagenomic and single-cell technology.