User:Lisa Goers

Contact Info

Lisa Goers (an artistic interpretation)

• Lisa Goers (Lisa Görs)
• Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation (CSynBI)
• Imperial College London
• Imperial College Road
• London, England, UK
• Email: lisa.goers[at]imperial[dot]ac[dot]uk
• http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/syntheticbiology
• https://twitter.com/LisaGoers

Polizzi lab:
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/k.polizzi
https://sites.google.com/site/polizzilab/project-definition

Freemont lab:
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/p.freemont

Education

• Currently, PhD Molecular Biosciences (Synthetic Biology), Imperial College London, Supervisors: Karen Polizzi, Paul Freemont
• 2010, MSci Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, England
• 2010, BA Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, England
• 2006, A Levels, Ivybridge Community College, Ivybridge, England

Previous labs

• Dr. Kathryn Lilley, University of Cambridge
  

http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/people/uto/lilley

• Prof. Peter Nixon, Imperial College
  

http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/p.nixon

• Dr Paul Dupree, University of Cambridge
  

http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/people/uto/dupree

• Dr Edmund Kunji, Univeristy of Cambridge
  

http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/people/kunji

• Prof. Gail Taylor, University of Southampton
  

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/biosci/about/staff/gt1.page
http://www.taylorlab.co.uk/

• Prof. Dr. Angelika Brandt, Universitaet Hamburg
  

http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/de/personen/brandt-angelika.html

Research interests

Synthetic Biology; method development; biosensors; plant and microbial science; evolution; molecular biology; sustainability.

Publications

1. "Co-culture systems and technologies: taking synthetic biology to the next level"[1]
2. "Engineering Microbial Biosensors" [2]
3. Acknowledged in: "Structure of CyanoP at 2.8 Å: Implications for the Evolution and Function of the PsbP Subunit of Photosystem II" [3]

Conferences

Talks

1. Novel in vivo biosensors for monitoring of mammalian cell cultures. Goers, L., Freemont, P., Polizzi, K. M. (AIChE Annual Meeting, 2014) [4]
2. Novel in vivo biosensors for on-line monitoring of mammalian cell cultures. Goers, L. (Flowers Consortium meeting, 2013)
3. Tissue culture contamination for fun and profit – A synthetic system for the on-demand supply of nutrients to mammalian cell cultures. Goers, L. (FlashTalk, EnGENEious Conference 2012, University of Oxford.)

Posters

1. Tissue culture contamination for fun and profit - Novel in vivo biosensors for on-line monitoring of mammalian cell cultures. Goers, L. (Poster presented at SB6.0 The sixth international meeting on Synthetic Biology, 2013, Imperial College London) [5]
2. Tissue culture contamination for fun and profit – A synthetic system for the on-demand supply of nutrients to mammalian cell cultures. Goers, L. (Poster presented at International Workshop on Systems and Synthetic Biology, 2012, Palmas de Mallorca.)
3. Tissue culture contamination for fun and profit – A synthetic system for the on-demand supply of nutrients to mammalian cell cultures. Goers, L. (Poster presented at EnGENEious Conference 2012, University of Oxford; was awarded Prize for Best Poster.)
4. Tissue culture contamination for fun and profit – A synthetic system for the on-demand supply of glutamine to mammalian cell cultures (Poster presented at Biochemical Society Centenary Celebration, London, 2011)
5. Tissue culture contamination for fun and profit – A synthetic system for the on-demand supply of glutamine to mammalian cell cultures. Goers, L.(Poster presented at Biochemical Society Harden Conference – “Synthetic Biology: design and engineering through understanding”, Keele University, UK, 2011; was awarded Biochemical Society Centenary Poster Prize)
6. Tissue culture contamination for fun and profit – A synthetic system for the on-demand supply of glutamine to mammalian cell cultures. Goers, L. (Poster presented at RosBNet Synthetic Biology Workshop 2011, Oxford)

Abstracts

1. "Designing metabolite biosensors for bioprocess monitoring using synthetic biology" [6]

Prizes, Bursaries, Awards

• enGENEious Conference poster prize [7]
• Biochemical Centenary Poster Prize at the 70th Harden Conference [8]

• Short-listed for British Federation of Women Graduates (BFWG) Scholarship, 2012
• BBSRC Vacation Bursary, 2009
• Gatsby Plants Summer Student Bursary, 2008
• Trinity Hall Overseas Bursary, 2006
• Cambridge European Trust Bursary, 2006-2010

• Science Cup, Ivybridge Community, 2006
• A level student of the year, Ivybridge Community College, 2006
• ranked “Highly commended student” – British Biology Olympiad, 2006

iGEM

1. Supervisor for Imperial Auxin 2011 [9]

Non-scientific Publications

1. Spiegel Online [10]
2. Weevilmagazine [11]

Useful links

• Introductory tutorial
• OpenWetWare help pages
• Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation [12]
• Imperial College London [13]