At WEHI I am supervised by Dr. Emma Petley in the labs of Prof. Matt Call and A/Prof. Melissa Call, testing whether a costimulatory receptor rebuilt into its native trimeric form makes T cells activate better.

At Zhejiang University I work with Dr. Yangwei Jiang in Prof. Ruhong Zhou’s lab on enzyme design — we redesigned the rate-limiting enzyme of astaxanthin biosynthesis and confirmed the prediction at the bench — and with Dr. Wenbin Zhou in Prof. Meihua Sui’s lab on the multi-omics basis of sex-biased liver cancer. I was Technical Lead of ZJU-China’s iGEM 2025 team, LumaManta.

What draws me is the point where a computational prediction has to survive contact with an experiment: protein and enzyme design, molecular dynamics, and the omics side of disease biology. This autumn I will spend a semester at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on the IASP exchange.