I'm working in the Open Bioeconomy Lab led by Jenny Molloy and hosted in the laboratory of prof. Lisa Hall.
I'm developing hardware and wetware tools to enable biotechnology in low-resources settings. Specifically, I'm helping to select the DNA modules within the Open Enzyme project and finding ways to express protein in E. coli using low-cost reagents. I work to lower the production costs of cell-free protein synthesis in order to deploy this technology in remote areas thatare not well served by current supply chains. I'm helping to develop an open-source low-cost bioreactor to grow and express proteins in E. coli.
I'm an automation enthusiast and I can't wait for robots to take over my pipetting skills. I've obtained my PhD studying the photosynthetic process in cyanobacteria using synthetic biology tools at LMU and did my first post-doc at Rothamsted Research in diatom engineering.
