This is us, our supervisor and our lab supervisors!
Supervisors
Gaetan is our supervisor, guiding us through everything
from experimental design to pitch talking.
Being one of the first to work on CRISPR in Australia, he is a highly experienced
researcher and an amazing supervisor.
Jovita is one of our lab supervisors and is in charge of training us
and guiding us in our experiments.
Arash is one of our lab supervisors knowledgable in protein purification and guides us in our experiments.
Gaétan Burgio
Jovita Silva
Arash Dastjerdi
Team Members
Jack is our student supervisor with
experience in similar challenges and projects. He has guided us
through everything and taught us a great deal
about pitch talks and sponsorship opportunities.
Hugh is a synthetic biology student, with a keen interest in protein design
and active site chemistry. Experienced in neural
networks, he has focused on the design and expression of the Arsenic
binder encapsulin system.
Sabrina is a biochemistry student with a focus on microbiology
and immunology. With her research experience in microbes,
she is mainly working on engineering bacteriophages for
delivery of our proposed bioremediation system.
Olivia is a third year biochemistry student with a focus on
biomedical science and she is taking part in the lab work.
Jack Dalton
Hugh Ashley
Sabrina Fu
Olivia Delfino
Riley is a third year Biology student interested in plant sciences and molecular biology.
Having done similar research before, he is our encapsulin specialist and oversees
our lab work done on them.
Jasper is a third year genetics student specialising in plant sciences and
molecular biology. He is taking part in all lab work.
Yo is a third year chemistry student, specialising in organometallic
and supramolecular chemistry. She is taking part in all lab work
and helping out with the wiki.
Anthony is a third year biotechnology student, specialising in molecular and synthetic biology.
He is taking part in the lab work and is the primary member working on the team wiki.