JAMS Monthly – Tuesday 25th February 2025
Welcome back to our Monthly JAMS Sydney Sessions! We are excited to kick of this year with our first Monthly – bringing you three presentations from different fields of microbiology at Keg & Brew, Surry Hills
Join us from 6 pm on Tuesday 25th February 2025.
Note – there will be no zoom live stream at our monthly events
Date: 6 -7:30 pm AEDT Tuesday 25th February 2025
Location: Level 1, Keg & Brew
26 Foveaux St, Surry Hills, NSW, 2010
6:00 pm Katy Christi from the University of New South Wales
TBC
6:15 pm: Dr Rezwan Siddiquee from the University of Sydney will present “ Discovery of a programmable ‘seekRNA’ that guides site specific DNA insertion“
Rezwan Siddiquee is a research associate in Synthetic Biology in the School of Chemistry at The University of Sydney. His research interests are in directed evolution of proteins for enhanced function and gene editing. He is a co-inventor of seekRNA technology, the new method of gene editing beyond traditional CRISPR. Beyond research, Rezwan runs Dungeons and Dragons games with other scientists from the university.
Bluesky: @rezwansiddiquee.bsky.social
7:00 pm Dr Yan Liao from University of Technology Sydney “The parasitic lifesyle of an archaeal symbiont”
Dr Yan Liao is a Chancellor’s Research Fellow and leads a research group on Archaeal Cell Biology and Biotechnology at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). She has extensive expertise in archaeal genetics, advanced imaging, biochemistry, and omics technologies. Her team focuses on deciphering the principles of cell division and growth in Archaea, a distinct domain of life, and developing archaeal cells for biomedical applications and environmental biotechnology. Dr Liao’s work helps to define the limits of life, improves our understanding of how life began, and benefits the industry by creating new pathways for controlling archaeal growth and harnessing archaea in biotechnology. Dr. Liao actively participates in high-profile public outreach events as invited speaker. She is also a mentor for STEM Sister and NSW Science Extension Programme, to provide support for young generations in scientific career development.
LinkedIn: Yan Liao
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