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School of the Biological Sciences

 

 

Associate Professor, Department of Plant Sciences

Nicola Patron uses engineering approaches to understand biological complexity and advance plant biotechnology, and is focussed on understanding how quantitative plant phenotypes emerge from network functions and exploring and utilising metabolic diversity.

Research Areas


Synthetic Biology
Gene-regulatory networks
Natural products
Specialised metabolism
Plant biotechnology
 

Techniques


Synthetic genetic circuits
Genome engineering
Gene expression analysis
Metabolic profiling
Bioactivity assays
 

Areas for Collaboration


Natural product bioactivity/pharmacology
Enzyme engineering
Network modelling
 
 
 

 

Research Theme