Welcome to the Membrane Proteins in Bacterial Pathogenesis Laboratory

The McDevitt laboratory is part of the Research Centre for Infectious Diseases at the University of Adelaide. The primary research interest of my group is the role of membrane proteins in bacterial pathogenesis.

Membrane proteins account for about one-third of the proteins encoded by the genome but the challenges in their isolation and handling have meant that they have remained relatively poorly characterised compared to their soluble counterparts.

The focus of research within the group will be characterising the function of specific membrane proteins and determining their involvement in mediating bacterial pathogenicity, by use of molecular, biochemical and biophysical techniques.