EBRC SPA member Kathryn Brink authors a Nature Communities blog post about increasing engagement in STEM through outreach, providing a first-person perspective about bringing engineering biology to underserved communities.
control theory, stochastic gene expression, gene regulatory networks, feedback
Senior Engineer, Technology Development Center, Innvation Division, Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
Professional Engineer, Japan (Biotechnology)
I am plant scientist with experience in plant developmental biology and biotechnology. I got my Ph.D degree in cellular and plant molecular biology in France. My Ph. D. research focused on the analyses of protein factors working on RNA editing in the mitochondria and plastid. After, from 2014 to 2016, I did a first post-doc moving to evolutionary and developmental plant biology. In this period, I collaborated to understand the evolution of the signaling pathways of the hormone strigolactones. In particular, I set up a simple approach for multiple gene editing in the moss Physcomitrella patens using CRISPR-Cas9. Currently, I am doing a second postdoc experience working on gene regulatory networks and protein networks involved in the reproductive development of moss for a comparative and evolutionary study with angiosperms.