We are an Australian led international network of experts
tackling the principles of design for engineering human cells
within a responsible research and innovation framework.
Network Members
Prof Christine Wells
Univ. Melbourne
Systems and synthetic biology
Prof Jose Polo
Monash Univ.
Cellular reprogramming
Prof Ryan Lister
Univ. Western Australia
Epigenome profiling & editing
Prof Rachel Ankeny
Univ. Adelaide
Ethics/policy of emerging tech
Prof Lars Nielsen
Univ. Queensland
Metabolic engineering
Dr Paul Angel
Univ. Melbourne
ECR committee
Prof Jane Calvert
Univ. Edinburgh
Societal aspects of SynBio
Dr Irene Gallego Romero
Univ. Melbourne
Evolutionary biology
Dr Sara Howden
MCRI
Genome engineering
Prof Joan Leach
Australian National Univ.
Science Communication
Prof Stephen Mahler
Univ. Queensland
Synthetic antibodies
Dr Quan Nguyen
Univ. Queensland
Biomedical machine learning
Dr Owen Rackham
Duke-NUS
Maths & computational biology
Dr Drew Titmarsh
Scaled Biolabs
Biotech industry
Dr Ionat Zurr
Univ. Western Australia
Academic Coordinator, SymbioticA
Dr Kim-Anh Le Cao
Univ. Melbourne
Biostatistics
A/Prof Marnie Blewitt
Walter and Eliza Hall Inst.
Epigenetic modifiers
Prof Piero Carninci
RIKEN
New genomic technologies
Patricia Gigliuto
Univ. Melbourne
Stakeholder Management
Dr Colin Jackson
Australian National Univ.
Synthetic protein engineering
Dr Heather Lee
Univ. Newcastle
Epigenetic regulation
A/Prof Jessica Mar
Univ. Queensland
Bioinformatics
Dr Nathan Palpant
Univ. Queensland
Stem cell engineering
Dr Mirana Ramialison
Monash Univ.
Gene regulatory networks
Dr Claire Tanner
Univ. Melbourne
ECR committee
Prof Ernst Wolvetang
Univ. Queensland
Cellular reprogramming
A/Prof Mikael Boden
Univ. Queensland
Statistical machine learning
Dr Oron Catts
Univ. Western Australia
Director, SymbioticA
Prof Doug Hilton
Walter and Eliza Hall Inst.
Developmental transcription
Dr Harald Janovjak
Monash Univ.
Synthetic principles
A/Prof Timothy Lu
MIT
Synthetic biology
Dr Alison McLennan
Univ. Canberra
IP, law and synthetic biology
Prof Colin Pouton
Monash Univ.
Chemical Biology
A/Prof Sefi Rosenbluh
Monash Univ.
Functional genomics
Dr Samir Taoudi
Walter and Eliza Hall Inst.
Blood epigenetics
A/Prof Megan Munsie
Univ. Melbourne
Stem cell policy & impact, RRI
Dr Catriona Bruce
IP Australia
Patent processes in Australia
Prof Alistair Forrest
Univ. Western Australia
Systems genomics
Prof Maja Horst
Univ. Copenhagen
Science and society research
Prof Jane Kaye
Univ. Oxford
Law, governance and RRI
A/Prof Tamra Lysaght
Nat. Univ. Singapore
Stem cell ethics and RRI
Dr Shalin Naik
Walter and Eliza Hall Inst.
Molecular medicine
A/Prof Joseph Powell
Garvan Inst.
Genomics
Prof Ed Stanley
MCRI
Stem cell engineering
Prof Mark Taylor
Univ. Melbourne
Data privacy law
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