Current and former researchers in the Chris French Laboratory.
Current researchers
PhD student.
Project title: Development of tools for information processing in transcriptional biosensors.
Julija Sabulyte is an IBioIC-funded PhD student developing biosensors for the Scotch Whisky industry.
Alumni
Postdoc, PhD and MSc alumni
Research Fellow.
Project title: Investigating the Marine Fermentation Approach for the Sustainable Production of Biofuels
Dr. Eric Thorand
Post-doc.
Project title: Synthetic biomaterials for transparent armour.
PhD student.
Project title: Development of novel methods for high throughput screening of recombinant constructs for conversion of cellulosic biomass to useful products.
PhD student.
Project title: Modular Cell-free systems using an Adaptable DNA-Logic as core processing machinery.
Bethan Highley
MSc student.
Project title: Novel method for sensitive detection of specific RNA sequences for rapid diagnostic tests.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Project title: Accelerating industrial metabolic engineering using YeastFAB.
Afterwards: Research Fellow at University of Edinburgh, UK
Athan Malamos
MSc student.
Project title: AsGard Biosensor.
Dr. Maryia Trubitsyna
Project title: Novel methods for DNA assembly: PaperClip.
Afterwards: Lab manager and Postdoctoral Research Associate at Rosser Laboratory, UK.
Project title: Generation of macroparticles for arsenic sensing on drinking water.
Afterwards: Lecturer at Khulna University, Bangladesh.
Dr. David Radford
Project title: Arsenic Biosensor Consortium
Afterwards: Student Support Tutor at University of Edinburgh, UK.
Dr. Craig Munns
Project title: Recombinant and wild type micro-organisms for the degradation and fermentation of lignocellulosic material for biofuel production.
Afterwards: Community Farm Development Manager at Barfield Educational
Uros Zupancic
Project title: Rapid electrical detection of bacterial growth.
Dr. Steven Kane
Project title: Screening the degradome of Cellulomonas fimi.
PhD student.
Project title: Establishing a standardised DNA assembly pipeline for natural product pathway engineering in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Dr. Andreas Andreou
PhD student.
Project title: Synthetic biomaterials for transparent armour.
PhD student.
Project title: A new biological route for large scale manufacture of methacrylic acid from renewable feedstocks.
Konstantinos Tsaridis
MSc student
Project title: CRISPR-based in vitro signal processing machinery for use in cell-free systems.
PhD student.
Project title: High-throughput DNA manufacturing, editing protocols and biological workflows from a process engineering perspective.
Afterwards: Automation specialist at Nuclera Nucleics, UK.
MSc student.
Project title: BacilloFlex.
Afterwards: PhD student at Univesity of Edinburgh, UK.
Project title: Development of a tyrosine recombinase in vivo for orthogonal SCRaMbLE of synthetic chromosomes for the Sc2.0 consortium and in vitro recombinase toolkit for metabolic engineering.
Afterwards: Postdoctoral Fellow at Cambridge University, UK.
Project title: Conversion of green algal polysaccharides to biofuels.
Afterwards: Postdoctoral Fellow at Newcastle University, UK.
Dr. Jan Oltmanns
Project title: Novel biosensor formats.
Afterwards: Junior Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Germany.
Dr. Kwabena Duedu
Project title: Enzyme engineering for cellulose degradation.
Afterwards: Lecturer at the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana.
Dr. Jon Stanley
Project title: Novel approaches to radiotherapy using engineered proteins.
Kuan Meng (Evan) Lee
Project title: Markerless genome editing in E. coli and related bacteria.
Dr. Joe White
Project title: A synthetic model system for biosynthesis of starch-like polysaccharides.
Dr. Eugene Fletcher
Project title: A synthetic biology approach to improving solvent tolerance.
Former undergraduate research students
Jovanna Maharaj
Honour student
Project title: Tolerance and production of methacrylate esters on Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains
Honour student
Project title: Engineering of methacrylate esters producing a strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Undergraduate student
Project title: BioPlustec, a novel Cell-free production system of bioplastics.
Project title: Novel method for sensitive detection of specific RNA sequences for rapid diagnostic tests.
Afterwards: MSc. student at University College London, UK.
Project Title: Developing a synthetic biology toolkit for manipulation of central metabolism in microorganisms.
Project title: Development of a modular DNA assembly toolkit for B. subtilis synthetic biology.
Afterwards: PhD student at Oxford University, UK.
Project title: iGEM 2017 - SMORE: A modular toolkit for site-specific recombination.
Afterwards: 4th year undergraduate student, UoE, UK
Project title: DNA printer, an assembly technique codon by codon.
Afterwards: 4th year undergraduate student, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Project title: A novel method for sensitive detection of specific RNA sequences.
Afterwards: 2nd year undergraduate student, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Raphael Ferriera
Project title: Synthetic glycobiology: producing polysaccharides in bacteria.
Shanaz Shaiful
Project title: Production of levan and other polysaccharides in bacteria.
Amin Mustafa
Project title: Determining the factors that limit growth of recombinant cellulase-producing strains on cellulosic substrates.
Karen Chan
Project title: Test the novel procedure for conversion of lactic acid to ethanol using LDH, ADH and PDC.
Philip Davies
Project title: Development of bioreporters for membrane stress.
Piotr Kasprowicz
Project title: Determination of the effect of temperature and age of the culture on secretion of C. fimi cellulases (CenA and Cex) from E. coli JM109.
Suzy Lowi
Project title: Escherichia Coli and Cellulomonas Fimi Co-Culture Experiment.
Kristin
Beth
Yuma Shino
Lina Gasiunaite
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