EngBio ECRs Meet, Greet & Talks - Monday 15 June 12pm

The EngBio ECRs Meetup is back . 

We are welcome two exciting talks from Dhriti Rao and Alvaro Castono-Medina. A great chance to hear new research, meet fellows ECRs and a light lunch will be provided. All are welcome.  

Dhriti Rao, MRC LMB

Improving the fitness of recoded bacteria for applications in the gut

Dhriti completed her undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, specialising in Genetics. Currently, she is a second year PhD student in the Robertson lab at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, working on synthetic genomics for the microbiome. In particular, she is interested in improving the fitness of existing recoded E. coli strains for application in the gut. 

Alvaro Castano-Medina, Dept. of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology

Second Brain Decoding through Conformal Bioelectronics

I am a neurobiologist specialising in the Enteric Nervous System (ENS), the so called “second brain” in our gut. Since the start of my career, including my PhD at Imperial College London and The Francis Crick Institute, I have explored how environmental and physiological factors such as diet, microbes and hormones, shape enteric neural circuits. During my current postdoctoral research at The University of Cambridge I will develop new tools to study ENS dynamics in real time. Alongside research, I am deeply committed to mentorship, scientific communication, and public engagement

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