Dr. Matthew Baker
Scientia Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia

Date: Friday, 20-September-2019
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 7, LG1/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong​

Summary:
Dr. Matt Baker is a Scientia Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Synthetic Biology at UNSW Sydney. Matt completed his DPhil at Oxford University studying the bacterial flagellar motor that makes nearly all bacteria swim. Since returning to Australia, Matt's research has focused primarily on the assembly and evolution of complex molecular architectures. Matt characterised DNA origami structures for scaffolding rotor assembly (ACS Nano 2018, Nanoscale 2019), and used directed evolution to examine the evolutionary landscape of the motor (Mol. Micro 2019). Overall, Matt seeks to examine the evolutionary origins of microbial motility using in vitro and in vivo synthetic biology.

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