Title
From evolution to innovation: the case of phage receptor-binding proteins
Date & Place
About the event
How does evolutionary innovation work at the molecular scale in bacteriophages?
Specifically: how do horizontal gene transfer and recombination generate new receptor-binding protein (RBP) functions, and can we predict — and ultimately design — those functions?
Speaker
Dr Rafał Mostowy
Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University
Rafal did his PhD at ETH Zurich (mathematical modelling of host-parasite coevolution), then held postdoctoral and fellowship positions at Imperial College London and the University of Oxford (bacterial population genomics, recombination inference). He joined Jagiellonian University in 2019 and has since shifted the group’s focus toward bacteriophage genomics. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2025.
RACE project: RNA and Cell Biology – from Fundamental Research to Therapies
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
