About
A geneticist interested in splicing, RNA decay, and synthetic biology. This is my blog focusing on my adventures in computational biology.
I am currently Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia (Perth, Australia), running a research program on both reading and writing of genomes. You can read about my synthetic memory gene circuits for plants in Nature Biotechnology. You can read about my recent efforts of reading the transcriptome and epigenome of Arabidopsis in Genome Research.
I studied Genetics (with a year in industry) at the University of York (UK) where I worked in the group of Prof Dame Ottoline Leyser FRS DBE for my final year research project exploring the basis of shoot architecture. I then won a Sainsbury Studentship in Plant Sciences to fund my PhD with Prof Brendan Davies at the University of Leeds (UK) working on nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) in plants. I then became a post-doc at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) focused on RNA biology and computational genomics. I then moved to Australia to join the group of Prof Ryan Lister to develop synthetic gene circuits for plants.
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