PhD completion

Congratulations to David Hsu, who successfully defended his PhD thesis in April. His project, supervised by Regan Anderson of Ferrier and Todd Lowary of Academica Sinica, focussed on the development of a new method for preparing asymmetrically-substituted trehalose for the synthesis of mycobacterial lipooligosaccharides.

A spotlight on synthetic biology

Emily Parker and Matthew Nicholson were recently featured on RNZ’s Nine to Noon. Listen to the interview here, where they discuss the science underpinning their agritech venture Bonito Bio with Kathryn Ryan.