Edeline is a biologist in the Quantum Biology DTC at the University of Surrey, which is focused on investigating non-trivial quantum effects in biological processes, and is funded by the Leverhulme Trust.  Edeline is interested in the understanding of the role of quantum behaviour in cryptochromes, the protein involved in magnetoreception and navigation, both from fundamental and applied viewpoints. She is carrying out part of her research in the National Physical Laboratory under the supervision of Dr Alex Jones

Dr Alice Banks is a research fellow in synthetic biology working on the MIPLACE project for microbial integration of plastics in the circular economy. Her research focusses on engineering microbial communities using polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyurethane (PU) as feedstock. She completed her PhD in fungal molecular biology at the University of Bristol and then moved to work as a postdoctoral research associate at Newcastle University investigating cell-free protein synthesis systems.

Syeda is conducting a PhD project investigating the tradeoffs between growth and gene expression in mammalian cells. This project is a collaboration with LGC and it is sponsored by the Doctoral Training Programme of the Dpt. of Life Sciences at Imperial College London.

Satya is a postdoctoral fellow leading our research activities in SECRETed. Satya’s work focuses on the automated assembly and optimisation of combinatorial pathways and non-conventional microbial chassis for the production of novel siderophores and surfactants.