Yen Peng (Apple) Chew (Darwin Trust of Edinburgh PhD Studentship)
Thesis title: Developing gene editing tools for plants and algae
Molecular Plant Sciences
Year of study: 3
- Molnar Lab, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences
Contact details
- Email: s1946694@ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Address
- Street
-
Rm. 1.07E, Daniel Rutherford Building
- City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH9 3BF
Background
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3799-5876
Qualifications
2019 - Present Ph.D, University of Edinburgh, UK
2015 - 2019 MBiol in Biotechnology and Microbiology, University of York, UK
Responsibilities & affiliations
- Co-layout editor of Edinburgh University Science Media (EUSci) magazine (2021 - present)
- Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences (IMPS) Outreach Vice-Chairperson (2020 - present)
- Choreographer for Advanced Hip Hop competition team of Edinburgh Modern Dance Society (EUMDS) (2020 - present)
- Presenter for BioPOD, the official podcast of the School of Biological Sciences (2020 - present)
- PhD student rep for IMPS (2020 - present)
- Editor-in-Chief of Edinburgh University Science Media (EUSci) magazine (2020 - 2021)
Undergraduate teaching
- Demonstrator and marker for Genomes and Genomics 3 (Bioinformatics)
- Demonstrator for Molecular and Synthetic Plant Biology 3 (CRISPR practicals)
- Demonstrator for Molecular Microbiology 3 (Fungal Biology practicals)
- Demonstrator, tutor and marker for Origin and Diversity of Life 1
- Marker for The Dynamic Cell 2
Postgraduate teaching
- Tutor for Tools for Synthetic Biology (CRISPR topic)
- Tutor for Applications of Synthetic Biology (Biofuels and Bioremediation topic)