Research
Biosecurity
coming soon
Microfluidics
During my PhD I developed microfluidic devices (channel and digital microfluidics) for applications in synthetic biology at the Shih microfluidics lab.
Non model organisms
During my Masters degree, I studied Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi with the intention of developing an engineering tolkit for it, and developed a fascination for these extremely complex living fossils. Growing them in vitro and studying them is quite fascinating.
How to save the world with mushrooms? Read this book.
DIY Bio and community science projects
Kombucha engineering
A project at Bricobio where we were trying to improve the structural properties of bacterial cellulose biofilm by stabilizing a foreign bacteria in the community.
Bioilluminescent Beer
Or Foulbeer Green Pale Ale. In collaboration with Foulab, we’ve been brewing fluorescent beer with transformed yeast. That is nothing special… but… We’re working towards bioilluminescent beer!
For brewing, we use transformed S.cerevisiae (GFP). The plan was to make a food safe transformed yeast strain that exports proteins that can trigger bioilluminescence in low quantity. I designed the yeast expression vector (2µ plasmid origin of replication, a ColE1 element, a marker gene (E. coli), a heterologous (methanol inducible) promoter, a termination signal and alpha-factor secretion leader peptide. )
Other Ideas
- Bacterial based photography developer and stripper
- Chicken-of-the-woods, mushroom farming
- Synbio Carmine dye synthesis