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Lab members
Current lab members
Mark Somerville

Mark Somerville
Research associate – Engineering new GFPs and green fluorescent bacteria
Scott Mitchell

Scott Mitchell
PhD Student – Equine hindgut microbiota and antibiotic resistance
Nick Yang

Nick Yang
PhD student – Monooxgenases for biocatalysis
Claudia Moratti

Claudia Moratti
PhD student – Engineering hydrocarbon biosensors
Brodie Gillieatt

Brodie Gillieatt
PhD student – Heavy metal plasmids
Amos Anderson

Amos Anderson
Hons student – Heterologous expression of psilocybin genes
Marcus Chung

Marcus Chung
Research assistant
Benj Gonzaga

Benj Gonzaga
Hons student – New genetic tools for cyanobacteria
Past lab members
Nicole Groves

Nicole Groves
PhD student – Chemoenzymatic synthesis of new antibiotics
Naomi Jones

Naomi Jones
Honours student – Creating a synthetic DCA degrader
Daniele la Cecilia

Daniele la Cecilia
PhD student – Glyphosate biodegradation in microcosms
Neil Wilson

Neil Wilson
Postdoc – Cloning monooxygenase gene clusters from Mycobacterium spp
Margaret Migocki

Margaret Migocki
Postdoc – Heterologous expression of monooxygenases
Deb Rich

Deb Rich
Research Assistant – Plant/microbe interactions
Elissa Liew

Elissa Liew
Research assistant -Transcriptomics analysis of hydrocarbon oxidation in Mycobacterium
Jake Munro

Jake Munro
Research assistant – Mapping organochlorine biodegradation genes in groundwater
Yanwei Ma

Yanwei Ma
PhD student – Metabolic engineering in Bacillus
Nga Le

Nga Le
PhD student – Bioremediation of organochlorines using Mycobacterium NBB4
Sam Cheung

Sam Cheung
PhD student – Biocatalysis for epoxide synthesis using monooxygenases
Alicia Gestal

Alicia Gestal
PhD student – Devlopment of synthetic gene cassettes for detecting integron activity
Mai Anh Ly

Mai Anh Ly
PhD student – Heterologous expression of ethene monooxygenase
Alex Baume

Alex Baume
PhD student -Development of probiotic and antibiotic scaffolds
Michelle Ong

Michelle Ong
Grad Dip student – Engineering E.coli for dichloroethane biodegradation
Taylor Weetman

Taylor Weetman
Grad Dip student – Expression of cytochrome p450 in E.coli
Frances Escobar

Frances Escobar
Honours student – Reconstruction of dichloroethane biodegradation pathway in E.coli
Vicky Kobylski

Vicky Kobylski
Honours student – Methanotrophic bacteria in Jenolan Caves
Ceri Jennings

Ceri Jennings
Honours student – Expression of penicillin synthase enzyme in E.coli
Sam Ross

Sam Ross
Honours student – Expression of dehalogenases in E.coli
Abigail Sison

Abigail Sison
Honours student – Development of synthetic gene cassettes for detecting integron activity
Kiri Martin

Kiri Martin
Honours student – Expression of SmoXYB1C1Z monooxygenase in Mycobacterium smegmatis
Jazmin Oszvar

Jazmin Oszvar
Honours student – Expression of SmoXYB1C1Z monooxygenase in Mycobacterium smegmatis
Emily Zhao

Emily Zhao
Honours student -Biodegradation of DDT and its metabolites
Vicky McCarl

Vicky McCarl
Postdoc – Heterologous expression of monooxygenase components in E.coli
Carl Tong

Carl Tong
Honours student – Mutagenesis of copper monooxygenase genes of Mycobacterium NBB4
Simon Dingsdag

Simon Dingsdag
Honours student – Bacterial communities associated with apical periodontitis
Becca Henry

Becca Henry
Honours student – Characterisation of EtnD reductase from Mycobacterium NBB4
Laura Nolan

Laura Nolan
Honours student – Growth kinetics of Mycobacterium NBB4
Sheree Yau

Sheree Yau
Honours student – Proteomics of Mycobacterium NBB4
Morgaine Peart

Morgaine Peart
Honours student – Investigation of plant-associated mycobacteria
Matt Quek

Matt Quek
Honours student – Characterising monooxygenase genes in Mycobacterium NBB4
Carmen Li

Carmen Li
Honours student – Linking genotype and phenotype in Mycobacterium NBB4
Fiona Tang

Fiona Tang
Postdoc – Biodegradation of herbicides
Helen Douglas

Helen Douglas
Hons student -Biodegradation of chloromethylphenol
Josephine Conrade

Josephine Conrade
Research assistant – Biodegradation of herbicides
iGEM teams
The International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition
iGEM is a global competition in synthetic biology, where students compete to create the most useful or novel GMO microbe. All the information that they generate and all the new DNA elements that they construct are made publicly available; this is an excellent example of open source science. The Coleman lab has hosted iGEM teams at the University of Sydney since 2013; click the photo to view each team’s project website. Their DNA parts can be found in the Parts Registry here.
iGEM 2019
USyd iGEM team 2019 “MagiColi”. From left: Emma Todd, Isobel Magrath, Nathan Hawkins, (Nick.C), Fahad Ali, Merrie Caruana, Benj Gonzaga
iGEM 2017
USyd iGEM team 2017 “DISCO”. From left: Ruby Dawes, Erica Stewart, Grace Attrill, Courtney Pratt, Jamie Littleboy, Stephanie Sun, Alex Kelly, Emaleen Najjar
iGEM 2016
USyd iGEM team 2016 “FRES(H)”. From left: Liam Ferguson, (Nick Coleman), Claudia Moratti, Amanda Chen, Wunna Kyaw, Alma Wu, Sholto Douglas, Sing-Young Chen, Orion Tong
iGEM 2015
USyd iGEM team 2015 “Myco Mimic”. From left: Lizzie Richardson, Mark Somerville, Mahiar Mahjoub, Gaia Hermann, Harrison Steel, Sandi Bo
iGEM 2014
USyd iGEM team 2014 “Easy cloni”. From left: Andy Bachler, Jeanne Zhang, Abigail Sison, Rokiah Alford, Callum Grey, Tom Connor
iGEM 2013
USyd iGEM team 2013 “DCA Down Under”. From left: Cyril Tang, Vivian Li, (Nick Coleman), Robbie Oppenheimer, Andrew Tuckwell, James Bergfield, Shuravi Paul. (not shown): Desmond Li, Hugh Ford
Collaborators
Friends
Peter Rutledge
Organic chemistry
Federico Maggi
Federico Maggi Environmental engineering
John Kavanagh
Chemical engineering
Brian Jones
Plant molecular biology
Michael Kertesz
Soil microbiology
Jacqui Matthews
Structural biology
Marjorie Valix
Chemical engineering
Andy Holmes
Microbial ecology
Mike Manefield
Environmental microbiology
Tom Jeffries
Microbial bioinformatics
Colin Murrell
Environmental microbiology
Claudia Vickers
Synthetic biology
Liz Gillam
Microbial biotechnology
Jim Gossett
Environmental engineering
Jim Spain
Environmental microbiology
Tim Mattes
Environmental engineering
Michael Gillings
Molecular microbiology
Chris Marquis
Chris Marquis Microbial biotechnology
Rob Willows
Plant biotechnology
Ian Paulsen
Microbial genomics
Sasha Tetu
Microbial genomics
Colin Scott
Synthetic biology
Gunjan Pandey
Environmental biotechnology
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