“Strategies to Tackle Common Engineering Biology Roadblocks”

Host: Dr Helge Dormueller

Venue: Sir Kenneth & Lady Noreen Murray Seminar Room, CTIR 2.84

Abstract  

Dr Kelly is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Sciences at Northumbria University, Newcastle. His research group focusses on developing solutions to some key limitations encountered in Engineering Biology and Biotechnology. This talk will discuss some of the ongoing projects in the group including: (1) the rapid screening of synthetic small RNAs to combat antibiotic resistance; (2) how best to produce complex metabolic pathways in heterologous hosts with many cofactor-containing enzymes so they scale up from lab to industrial applications; and (3) approaches to evolving an agriculturally-important plant growth-promoting soil bacterium for fundamental plant-microbe interaction studies, as well as for use in commercial agriculture.