Future Science Fellowships announced
UPDATE: Some Fellowships have now commenced, read about First steps towards a synthetic biology future
The Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform is set to kick start some exciting new research in Australia, with Future Science Fellowships having just been awarded to eleven outstanding early-career postdoctoral researchers in the field.
The new Fellows and their projects:
Michele Fabris – University of Technology Sydney, Climate Change Cluster (C3)
A synthetic diatom mini-chromosome for specialised synthetic biology functions in microalgae
Nan Hao – University of Adelaide
Developing orthogonal Cas/anti-Cas pairs as building blocks for genetic circuit design
Suvi Honkanen – University of Western Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology
Engineering synthetic pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins as on/off switches for chloroplast protein translation
Brendan Kidd – University of Western Australia
Development of novel transcriptional regulators and synthetic logic gates for sophisticated control of plant activity and production
Briardo Llorente – Macquarie University
Synthebiont: Travelling back in time to the origin of photosynthetic eukaryotes
Nina Pollak – University of the Sunshine Coast
Tissue engineered multicellular structures for aquatic detoxification
Konstantinos Vavitsas – University of Queensland
A modular design and construction platform for high-throughput strain engineering in cyanobacteria
Karen Weynberg – University of Queensland
Engineering bacteriophages and establishment of a phage therapy platform for targeted and effective control of bacterial biofilms
Jason Whitfield – University of Queensland
Modular protein biosensors of secondary metabolites
Matthew Wilding – Australian National University
Engineering Orthogonal Translation Machinery
Thomas Williams – Macquarie University
From one to many: Synthetic yeast chassis for C1 metabolism