Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩🏻‍🔬🔬 Such an honour to be a part of this inclusive community!! Let’s keep breaking stereotypes and inspiring others to follow the path of science -Karen Rodriguez #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

So happy to be a part of this project!! Have a look at the team's latest publication!

Every academic after a long and busy week

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Engineering anaerobic bacteria such as C. autoethanogenum is not an easy task, that’s why James Heffernan and Karen Rodriguez work in designing, building and testing genetic circuits to isolate components from C auto into E. coli.

Got 15 mins? Rapid COVID testing is a reality thanks to AnteoTech . The #Qld manufacturer officially launched its 15-minute COVID-19 rapid test platform, EuGeni, developed with $1.4M support from Queensland Government  We’re proud of our #Qld biomedical industry! fal.cn/3f0GE

Great end to a fantastic Synthetic Biology Australasia (SBA) conference. Well done to the committee and chair Colin Jackson for pulling off an amazing event.

Fashion retail giant ZARA partners with LanzaTech Global to use the biotech’s carbon capture technology to launch a collection of party dresses woven from pollutants nature.com/articles/s4158…

So proud of James Heffernan describing Systems biology for ancient C1 recyclers, used by LanzaTech Global 🦠. Next, kinetic models! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09…

Fantastic talk from PHD candidate Karen Rodriguez and WearOptimo employee Dr Katelyn Richards here at the CBI-ITTC, CIBIT-ITTC & ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology Joint Symposium!

Here is a shocker: a single shaking incubator consumes similar amount of electricity as an average household! Some shaking incubators are even worse than -80C freezers with 16kwh per day😲. You know the solution... turn if OFF when not in use🙂 #greenlab #sustainablelab

I come bearing bad news, fellow academics:

Brilliant Lorne Proteomics with Craig, Karen Rodriguez and Gert Talbo. Fantastic talk on single cell proteomics by Craig

It was a great experience to attend Lorne proteomics and share how proteomics can help use find chassis bacterial strains for biofuel production using GHGs as feedstock! ♻️ big learnings from others in the area too!

“This is an incredible development, not just for sustainability and the planet - but for biomanufacturing, aviation, and QLD.” Like many in #biomanufacturing, AIBN's Esteban Marcellin is cheering as US biofuel firm LanzaJet +#JetZeroAustralia scope a new biofuel refinery here in QLD

Our researchers Esteban Marcellin and Karen Rodriguez are exploring cleaner, greener ways to keep our planes flying. Together with #IndustryPartner @lanzatech, the AIBN is looking at gas fermentation as the next source of aviation fuel. 🔗bit.ly/lanzatech-aibn

Had an amazing time at the Global Bioeconomy alliance conference last week! I presented my research on isobutanol production using C. autoethanogenum and won best poster prize!🥳