I’m a third-year MBiol student at the University of Oxford, fascinated by how life works as an information system. I’m captivated by how it encodes, adapts, evolves, and can be engineered into new forms and functions. My interests primarily lie within synthetic biology, systems biology, and computational biology but I also have wider interests spanning evolutionary biology, virology and xenobiology. I’m drawn to projects combining a computational and wet lab approach where curiosity and a little bit of chaos often lead to unexpected outcomes.
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In sixth form I designed and developed a neuroevolutionary algorithm and ecosystem simulation in order to explore how adaptive behavior could emerge from biologically inspired evolutionary processes. The algorithm, Chimeric Evolution of Partially Divergent Toplogies (CEPDT), was designed to model modular evolution within artificial neural architectures.
MBiol Year 2 Research Project
Led an supervised independent research project to investigate thedistribution of recombinant cGFP and sRFP introduced to N.benthamiana via agroinfiltration. The project included introduction of the recomnbinant proteins via agroinfiltration,and western blotting and fluoresence imagining to anlayse their distribution in the intracellular and extraceullar environments. I designed and then performend the experiment under supervision, I wrote my results up in a poster which was then presented.
Participant
Participated in the university’s inaugural cross-disciplinary colloquium focused on climate change, designed to encourage collaboration between students from diverse academic backgrounds. The program was a combination of lectures, discussions, and group activities aimed at exploring how integrated, cross-disciplinary thinking can address climate challenges. At the end of the program, worked in a small group to design an initiative to reduce single-use plastic usage across the university, which was presented in a group-setting.
MBiol: Integrated Masters of Biology
Module Choice To Date:
Year 1:
- Building a Phenotype
- Evolution and Ecology
- Diversity of Life
Year 2:
- Cell and Developmental Biology
- Genomics and Host-Microbe Interactions
- Ecology and Evolution
- Year 3:
- Advanced Cell Biology
- Genome Diversity and Evolution
- Biology of Infectious Disease
- Green Grand Challenges
