Dr Claudia Vickers    Smart Futures Fellow

	Biography

I am a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN). I am the team leader for th Sucrose-to-Bioproducts Program and the Industrial Isoprenoid Engineering Program at the Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology (CSSB). Our group uses ‘omics analyses, genetic engineering, genome scale modeling, and other advanced tools for metabolic engineering of microbes. I also maintain a research interest in biogenic isoprene emission and genetic diversity in baobabs

I completed my PhD at The University of Queensland working on moelcular control of endosperm specific gene expression. Following this I worked at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Legume Research on nodulation genes in legumes. I then spent three years at Essex University in the UK investigating biogenic isoprene emission from plants. I returned to Australia in 2007 to join the AIBN as a microbial metabolic engineer.

	Links
	Claudia Vickers home page, Claudia Vickers, AIBN

	Keywords
	Science and Technology: Genetic Engineering, Medical: Biochemical Engineering, Science and Technology: Molecular Biology, Science and Technology: Microbiology, Science and Technology: Plant Sciences