#SynBio and #naturalproducts. Enzymology, heterologous expression, and bioengineering. Senior Lecturer in Chemical and Synthetic Biology @SydneyChemistry.
Joined January 2018
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22 Jun 2025
Establishing Conserved Biosynthetic Gene Clusters of the Phylum Myxococcota biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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2 May 2025
My dept in London at Imperial (Bioengineering) is recruiting a group leader at Professor level 🧑🎓 Please RT. It's a great department with world-class expertise in all sorts of biomedical & biological engineering topics, including synthetic biology. 🇬🇧imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-j…
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15 Apr 2025
Citation metrics: In the US I found they were not at all emphasized when applying for grants. I would look up my H-index/total cites once a year when filling out some annual paperwork for the university.
In Australia I find them extremely emphasized in grant applications.
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To be clear, there were often sections when I would make an argument about my track record/contributions to science/relevant pubs, highlight 1st or last authored papers esp. w/ PhD students and postdocs, demonstrate I had published high impact papers or highly cited papers, etc.
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13 Apr 2025
Exploring alternative hosts for engineered PKSs is a promising strategy. In our latest publication, we established P. putida as a production host for unnatural polyketides.
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10 Apr 2025
Establishing a High-Yield Bacillus subtilis-Based Cell-Free Protein Synthesis System for In Vitro Prototyping and Natural Product Biosynthesis | ACS Synthetic Biology
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1 Apr 2025
If Columbia hadn't caved on $400 million, Harvard wouldn't have been targeted for $9 billion. If Paul Weiss hadn't caved for $40 million, Skadden wouldn't have had to shell out $100 million. It's not rocket science, people.
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31 Mar 2025
Changes to ARC grants will make it harder for Australia to combat Trump chaos, researchers warn | Australian education | The Guardian theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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28 Mar 2025
High-fidelity in vitro packaging of diverse synthetic cargo into encapsulin protein cages
"Fluorescent dyes, proteins and cytotoxic drug molecules can all be selectively packaged via a peptide-mediated targeting process."
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24 Mar 2025
Excited to speak at the Cell Free Systems conference this year. Even better, I can stay with my parents in my childhood home who live minutes away from Northwestern!
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24 Mar 2025
Cell free people--anyone notice that E. coli tRNA is no longer being sold by Sigma: sigmaaldrich.com/AU/en/produ…
Any advice for alternative suppliers?
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22 Mar 2025
Expected, but demonstrates the issue when we keep getting advice to look at international schemes as one strategy overcome budget shortages in ARC/NHMRC funding as the US has historically been our biggest partner.
theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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22 Mar 2025
"Sheehy said US funding accounted for more than $400m in 2024 alone – equivalent to around half the funding the federal government provided in research grants via the Australian Research Council."
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22 Mar 2025
I am very happy to be in Australia and love our community (and happy to be out of the middle of the mess in the US right now). But it's striking how much what goes on the US affects everywhere.
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20 Mar 2025
We're hiring!🚨Our lab @SydneyChemistry is looking for two new #chempostdoc for our drug discovery program:
1) Synthetic/Med Chem (small molecule hit-to-lead)🧪
usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/e…
2) Chemical Biology (peptide inhibitors)🦠
usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/e…
Pls spread the word!🙏
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