Toward BioSustainability Group

The Toward BioSustainability Group designs and implements bio-based solutions required by Australia to move to a new generation of sovereign sustainability in waste processing, resource recovery, sustainable consumption and nature based novel production systems.

Tom Walsh

Toward BioSustainability Group Leader

Insects as Engineers Team

Recent advances in synthetic biology enable us to manipulate insect genomes and microbiomes with unprecedented precision and sophistication. Developing genomic and other omic resources will enable waste processing, bioproduction and ecosystem engineering applications.

Amy Paten

Insects as Engineers Team Leader

BioProduction Team

The development and application of novel bioproduction and multiomic analysis capabilities to greatly reduce the time, financial, and environmental costs of delivering bio-based products and solutions. 

Oliver Mead

BioProduction Team Leader

BioDesign Team

Taking advantage of the digital transformation of biology to develop of workflows and tools that greatly reduce the time and resource requirements for big data analysis and the development of new biotechnological solutions to sustainability issues. 

BioDesign Team Leader