Westra Lab

Westra Lab

Edze Westra

Principal Investigator


After my PhD in the lab of Prof. John van der Oost at Wageningen University on the molecular mechanism and regulation of CRISPR-Cas immune systems (2009-2013), I started to explore the evolutionary ecology of CRISPR-Cas immune systems as a Marie-Curie Fellow in the lab of Prof. Angus Buckling, University of Exeter (2013-2015). I received a NERC Independent Research Fellowship in 2015 to set up my own lab at the University of Exeter, and received further funding from BBSRC, Wellcome Trust and ERC.