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Chloe gets to see the fruits of her PhD placement labour with the arrival of the Singer Instruments ColonyCam imagers to KFG imaging facility. Watch out for some dangerously crisp, razor-sharp images coming out of Kent! Thanks to Singer Instruments and their leaders for doing an incredible job with the imagers!
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The filamentous fungi project is gaining another star - University of Manchester alumnus Dr Lauren Dineen! Coming straight from a post-doc in the west-coast USA, brining t-RNA and bioinformatics expertise, Lauren will begin genetically screening our filamentous fungi collection and making sense of our 300 strains of weird and wonderful fungi! Welcome Lauren!
Professor Alessia Buscaino is leaving the Garden of England moving her research to the North Sea coastline & flatlands of Norfolk. At the Quadram Institute in Norwich, she will be continuing and expanding her work both into fungal pathogens and edible fungi. See her bittersweet, but exciting announcement on LinkdIn.    Dr Chloe Uyl was invited to Bangkok to talk about her research on fungal diversity and using it for eco-focused biotech, accompanied by Professor Alessia Buscaino, at the workshop Exploring New Horizons: Novel Microbial Platforms for Protein and Biochemical Production workshop in Bangkok, Thailand, hosted by BIOTEC-NSTDA. Thanks for the great representation, we hope to see some exciting collaboration!  Fresh off of Chloe's viva, we welcome a new team member joining Chloe on the Alternative Proteins project - Michaela Kolmosova. She will be doing some chemical analysis on our funky filamentous fungi and waste media, as well as general lab technician duties with Khethi.  Kent's very own Chloe Uyl has emerged triumphant from her viva. After 4 years of hard work, she has completed and defended her research on using natural diversity of Scheffersomyces stipitis (formerly Pichia stipitis) for biofuel production. Congratulations to Chloe on the exciting work and we look forward to seeing where her research career takes her next!
Professor Buscaino has been as busy as ever with her grant proposals - and she's on (a sustainable) fire! She has been awarded a grant from Imperial's Centre for Sustainable Protein funded by the Bezos Earth Fund to build on her work in climate solutions with fungi to research novel platforms for sustainable food production. Congratulations to Alessia and her partners!
 We have so much to celebrate: a new paper published, Chloe writing her thesis and, sadly, Sam and Cristina leaving. Time for an escape room and dinner at Alessia's.
 Candida albicans has an active RNA interference pathway! Congratulation Elise and Cristina
 A nice but cold lab day out in Whitstable!
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