Principal Investigator

Antoni is a structural and molecular biologist, a group leader at the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Oxford, and a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow. He is also a Stipendary Lecturer at Hertford College.

Antoni started his group at the Oxford Biochemistry Department in late 2024. This is also where he read his undergraduate degree (in Corpus Christi College), doing Part II focused on HIV with Chris Scanlan. He then moved to Cambridge as a Wellcome Trust Infection and Immunity scholar to read PhD (in Churchill College) at the lab of David Owen FRS . Here, he focused on understanding molecular mechanisms of endocytic proteins using mainly crystallography. He then went to the Francis Crick Institute in London for a postdoc with Steve Gamblin FRS and Sir John Skehel FRS, where he studied viral fusion proteins with cryoEM before moving back to Oxford.

Senior Scientist

Snezana joined the Wrobel lab at its inception, but she worked at the Oxford Biochemistry Department and the Oxford Glycobiology Institute before, first at the Scanlan Lab, then the Crispin Lab, and the Zitzmann Lab. She is a molecular biologist and a protein biochemist and the world-class expert when it comes to working with difficult glycoproteins.

Part II Student

Harley is the first member of the Wrobel lab together with Tremaine. She comes from Magdalen College and joined the lab to study glycoproteins of gamma-coronaviruses.

Part II Student

Tremaine is the first of member of the Wrobel lab together with Harley. He also comes from Magdalen College and his project has focused on understanding the mechanisms governing folding and quality control of viral glycoproteins.

DPhil Student (co-supervised, first supervisor: Jason Schnell)

Laurentien is interested in tracking down the molecular mechanisms that govern the assembly of viruses. By studying protein-lipid interactions, he hopes to improve our understanding of the Influenza virus. For this purpose, he applies a range of biophysical and structural techniques from nanoDSF and SPR to X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy.
Outside of the lab, he takes a keen interest in visual arts and their role for communication in science and beyond.

Visiting Student

Benjamin was born in Germany where he also studied Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology. His main research interests lie in structural and computational biology. In the Wrobel lab, he is leveraging NMR, cryo-EM and other biophysical methods to understand the interactions of viral glycoproteins with their receptors.