Dr Jenny Molloy
- Shuttleworth Research Fellow
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I am currently a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge and a Group Leader at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB). My work involves developing open-source technologies for engineering biology and biomanufacturing. Before this role, I served as the Programme Coordinator for the University of Cambridge Strategic Research Initiative in Synthetic Biology and the OpenPlant Synthetic Biology Research Center. I earned my undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge and a DPhil in Zoology from the University of Oxford, focusing on the genetic control of dengue mosquitoes.
Research
Cambridge Analytical Biotechnology group
My research is centered around local, distributed biomanufacturing of enzymes to enhance global capacity for biological research and advance applications in health and sustainability. Ongoing projects include developing open source DNA toolkits for recombinant protein expression using synthetic biology-based platform technologies, high-quality protein purification in low-resource contexts, open source microbial strain engineering, CRISPR-based molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases and enzyme-based carbon capture and upcycling.