
Luiz Pedro Carvalho
VISITING GROUP LEADER
Luiz was born and grew up in the south of Brazil and obtained undergraduate (pharmacy) and MSc (cell and molecular biology) degrees from UFRGS. He then moved to the USA to pursue his PhD studies in the laboratory of John S. Blanchard at the Biochemistry Department of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He studied mechanistic enzymology, inhibition kinetics and protein chemistry.
For postdoctoral training Luiz joined Carl Nathan's laboratory at the Weill Cornell Medical College (2006-2011) in New York, exploring the use of rational approaches to antibiotic research and studying Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its interaction with the host. In addition to antibiotic research, Luiz contributed to the first applications of LC-MS-based metabolomics methods for functional genomics and system-level studies of M. tuberculosis, under guidance of Kyu Y. Rhee, also at Cornell.
In 2011 Luiz moved to the Medical Research Council (MRC) National Institute for Medical Research (now part of the Francis Crick Institute) to establish his laboratory working on how Mtb enzymes work, how they are inhibited by antibiotics and how they are organised together to form M. tuberculosis metabolic network. Luiz has been awarded an MRC Centenary Award and the 2014 ASM - Merck Irving S. Sigal Award.
Qualifications and history
Year published
Research topics
- Biochemistry & Proteomics (37)
- Cell Biology (4)
- Cell Cycle & Chromosomes (2)
- Chemical Biology & High Throughput (7)
- Computational & Systems Biology (37)
- Developmental Biology (1)
- Gene Expression (3)
- Genetics & Genomics (37)
- Genome Integrity & Repair (3)
- Human Biology & Physiology (1)
- Imaging (2)
- Immunology (4)
- Infectious Disease (37)
- Metabolism (37)
- Microfabrication & Bioengineering (1)
- Model Organisms (6)
- Neurosciences (1)
- Signalling & Oncogenes (2)
- Stem Cells (1)
- Structural Biology & Biophysics (37)
- Synthetic Biology (1)
- Tumour Biology (2)
Journal
- ACS Bio & Med Chem Au (1)
- ACS Infectious Diseases (1)
- ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters (1)
- Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (1)
- Biochemical Journal (1)
- Biochemistry (5)
- Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry (1)
- Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters (1)
- Chemistry & Biology (3)
- ChemistryOpen (1)
- Current Opinion in Chemical Biology (1)
- Current Opinion in Microbiology (1)
- Current Opinion in Systems Biology (1)
- eLife (1)
- EMBO Reports (1)
- European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (1)
- FEBS Journal (1)
- Frontiers in Immunology (1)
- Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences (1)
- Journal of Bacteriology (1)
- Journal of Biological Chemistry (2)
- Journal of Experimental Medicine (1)
- Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (3)
- Methods in Enzymology (1)
- Methods in Molecular Biology (1)
- Microbiology (1)
- Molecular Cell (1)
- Molecular Microbiology (2)
- Nature (1)
- Nature Chemical Biology (2)
- Nature Communications (4)
- Nature Microbiology (1)
- PLOS Pathogens (2)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2)
- Structure (2)
- The Lancet (1)
- Tuberculosis (1)