I joined the lab in September 2025 as a DPhil student on the EPSRC and BBSRC Engineering Biology CDT programme. I had previously completed rotations in the Rhizosphere Lab and the Licausi Lab, where I was using yeast to interrogate plant oxygen sensing. In my DPhil project, co-supervised by Antonis Papachristodoulou, I am engineering free-living diazotrophs to fix nitrogen and release ammonia in response to plant-derived signals. I am particularly interested in applying computational modelling to guide the design of the regulatory circuits that accomplish this.
Before joining the lab, I completed my BA and MSci in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, with a focus on biochemistry and systems biology. For my undergraduate project in the Howe Lab, I worked on cyanobacterial gene expression in biophotovoltaic devices. I spent a summer in Jenn Brophy’s lab at Stanford, building and testing inducible genetic circuits in plants, and in my master’s project in the Fusco Lab, I investigated the gene regulatory networks that determine cell state in bacterial biofilms.
In October 2025: DPhil student Yr 2 of 4 years
Rhizosphere 