About
I am a PhD student at Newcastle University, with my studentship funded by the Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering. My project is part of a collaboration with the National University of Singapore (NUS). The overall aim of my reasearch is to develop methods to engineer the plant microbiome of the Chinese vegetable, Brassica rapa var. parakinensis and enrich the rhizospheric community metagenome of the model plant with genetic traits responsible for Plant Growth Promotion (PGP). In order to achieve this goal, I will be focusing my research on the genetic modification of non-domesticated soil bacteria strains and simplified Gram+ community. My PhD project will be supervised by Professor Anil Wipat (main supervisor, Newcastle University) and Professor Matthew Wook Chang and Professor Sanjay Swarup (supervisors, NUS).
Education
Ph.D. Computing Science, Newcastle University, UK, 2016-present.
Engineering the plant microbiome to increase plant growth and yield.
MSc Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Italy, 2011-2014.
Intership at Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences - SILS. University of Amsterdam, 2012.
Disseration Title: From solar energy and carbondioxide to valuable compounds: Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 as a photofermentative cell factory.
BSc Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Italy, 2006-2011.
Disseration Title: mtDNA rearrangements in human liver aging process.
Research
During my PhD I will be working on my project; "Engineering the plant microbiome to increase plant growth and yield".
Principal Investigators
Publications
Exploring metabolic engineering design principles for the photosynthetic production of lactic acid by Synechocystis sp. PCC6803. Angermayr et al., 2014. Biotechnology for Biofuels20147:99