Biofuels and Bioenergy

Reem Swidah is a Post-doc in the MIB at the University of Manchester. She did her PhD in Prof. Chris Grant and Prof. Mark Ashe labs at the University of

Manchester and she Has worked on engineering Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain toward biofuel production. Currently, she is working in Prof. Patrick Cai

lab and she is constructing and characterizing the new essential chromosome 3 and Synthetic Genomic Evolution (SCRaMBLE) in yeast. She has extensive experience in metabolic engineering, synthetic Biology and synthetic genome. She has more than 6 years of experience in biofuel production. She has published two articles in the high impact factor journals. She also has proven success in getting funding from the BBSRC and R2I grant, and she has experience leading teams to achieve the objectives of projects. She is also interested in business growth and in making business-to-business partnerships work.