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Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

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Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Investigating new approaches for the large-scale design and characterisation of biocatalyst panels, focusing on maximal diversity, data utilisation and high-throughput lab robotics.

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Led the development of rAAV/AD and mammalian cell line (inc. iPSC) automated platforms to enable commercial project expansion. Scope of automation included liquid handling, bespoke scheduler development and integrated peripheral systems.

Developed worklist creation tool web app and in-house sample tracking system for CRISPR edited clonal cell lines. Helped improve and refactor automated molecular biology workflows (mini/midipreps, colony picking, arraying).

Oxford, United Kingdom

Assisted team in running multiple automated platforms for commercial and R+D projects.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

I joined the Newcastle 2018 iGEM team as part of my MSc Thesis. As part of GeneMachine, a post-graduate subgroup of the Alternative Roots Newcastle iGEM Team, we investigated the issues of irreproducibility and standardisation in Synthetic Biology. More specifically we focused on the 2018 Interlab and what could be done to improve it. My aim was to apply a Bio-design Automation methodology that used liquid handling robots and Design of Experiments (DoE) to rapidly optimise and generate competent Escherichia Coli DH5-alpha. These could than be used for automated transformation protocols that would allow for the high-throughput, lab-scale transformation of ultra-competent E. coli. The liquid handling robot used was the recently released Opentrons OT-2, a robot we won in an international competition, the only team in the UK to do so. This project required me to be highly interdisciplinary, learning how to code in python and working alongside architects and engineers to construct hardware to compliment the software. Alongside this I also helped the Alternative Roots team to use laboratory robotics to aid in the automation of their experiments.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Degree Classification: Distinction Studied modules in: Gene technology, Bioinformatics, GMOs in the agricultural, pharmaceutical and industrial sectors, Modelling and Control of Bioprocess Systems and Renewable energy. I also took an optional module in Ideas for Business Enterprise in STEM.I undertook an 8 week molecular biology practical skills workshop that cumulated in the use of ligation independent cloning to generate a recombinant bacteria which produced mCherry fluorescent protein. From this immobilised affinity chromatography (IMAC) and western blots were used for analysis protein presence. I also undertook a research based bioinformatics module that used DNA and protein databases to discover a chitinase enzyme that may be useful in an industrial setting. Phylogenies were constructed, as well as explicit protein models using Chimera.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Degree Classification: 2:1Studied modules in Biotechnology and Cell biology, Molecular Evolution and Systematics, Genomics, Immunology, Animal Parasitology, Experimental and Statistical Design, Population Genetics and Plant Biology.For my thesis I carried out a Literature Review. A short, initial review focused on Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, a exoelectrogenic bacteria, and its ability to produce nanowire for extracellular electron transport. This was to research the literature about its potential to me used in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) to generate clean energy. From here, I wrote a literature review on the design of MFCs and the efficiencies of numerous exoelectrogenic bacteria.

Hightown

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Newcastle

Master Of Science - Msc, Industrial And Commercial Biotechnology, Distinction

Activities and Societies: NUWC

Bachelor'S, Cell/Cellular And Molecular Biology, 2:1

Activities and Societies: BioSoc, NUSC

A-Level

Gcse