User:Lisa Goers

General Info

Lisa Goers (an artistic interpretation)

• Lisa Goers (Lisa Görs)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow
• Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
• Boston, MA, USA
• Email: lgoers[at]mgh[dot]harvard[dot]edu
• Harvard Catalyst: https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/158502
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-goers
• Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lisa_Goers2
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/LisaGoers

Previously:

• Postdoctoral Research Associate
• 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
• Imperial website: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/lisa.goers
• http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/syntheticbiology

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

Kitney lab: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/r.kitney

Research interests

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

Education

• 2010-2015, 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 (4th year MSci project)
  

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

• Prof. Peter Nixon, Imperial College (summer undergraduate project)
  

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

• Dr Paul Dupree, University of Cambridge (3rd year undergraduate project)
  

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

• Dr Edmund Kunji, University of Cambridge (summer undergraduate project)
  

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

• Prof. Gail Taylor, University of Southampton (summer undergraduate project)
  

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

• Prof. Dr. Angelika Brandt, Universitaet Hamburg (summer project)
  

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

Publications

1. "Co-culture systems and technologies: taking synthetic biology to the next level", 2014 [1]
2. "Engineering Microbial Biosensors", 2013 [2]

Acknowledged in:

1. "Structure of CyanoP at 2.8 Å: Implications for the Evolution and Function of the PsbP Subunit of Photosystem II", 2010 [3]
2. "Abnormal Glycosphingolipid Mannosylation Triggers Salicylic Acid–Mediated Responses in Arabidopsis", 2013 [4]
3. "EcoFlex: A Multifunctional MoClo Kit for E. coli Synthetic Biology", 2016 [5]

Conferences

Talks

1. Making Sense: Novel in vivo biosensors for industrial contexts. Goers, L., Hirst, C., Ainsworth, C. Freemont, P., Polizzi, K. M. (Synthetic Biology UK 2015, London) [6]
2. Novel in vivo biosensors for monitoring of mammalian cell cultures. Goers, L., Freemont, P., Polizzi, K. M. (AIChE Annual Meeting, 2014, Atlanta) [7]
3. Novel in vivo biosensors for on-line monitoring of mammalian cell cultures. Goers, L. (Flowers Consortium meeting, 2013)
4. Tissue culture contamination for fun and profit – A synthetic system for the on-demand supply of nutrients to mammalian cell cultures. Goers, L. (Lightening Talk, IChemE Young Researchers Meeting 2012, University of Manchester.)
5. 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

• 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) [8]

• Tissue culture contamination for fun and profit – A synthetic system for the on-demand supply of nutrients to mammalian cell cultures.

(Poster presented at International Workshop on Systems and Synthetic Biology, 2012, Palmas de Mallorca.)

• Tissue culture contamination for fun and profit – A synthetic system for the on-demand supply of nutrients to mammalian cell cultures.

(Poster presented at IChemE Young Researchers Meeting 2012, University of Manchester; was awarded Prize for Best Poster.)

• Tissue culture contamination for fun and profit – A synthetic system for the on-demand supply of nutrients to mammalian cell cultures.

(Poster presented at Graduate School Summer Research Symposium 2012, Imperial College London; presenting at this event is part of Division of Molecular Biosciences Postgraduate Research Day Poster Prize)

• Tissue culture contamination for fun and profit – A synthetic system for the on-demand supply of nutrients to mammalian cell cultures.

(Poster presented at EnGENEious Conference 2012, University of Oxford; was awarded Prize for Best Poster.)

• Tissue culture contamination for fun and profit – A synthetic system for the on-demand supply of glutamine to mammalian cell cultures

(Poster presented at Division of Molecular Biosciences Postgraduate Research Day 2012, Imperial College London; was awarded Third Prize for Best Research Poster)

• 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)

• 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 Harden Conference – “Synthetic Biology: design and engineering through understanding”, Keele University, UK, 2011; was awarded Biochemical Society Centenary Poster Prize)

• Tissue culture contamination for fun and profit – A synthetic system for the on-demand supply of glutamine to mammalian cell cultures.

(Poster presented at RosBNet Synthetic Biology Workshop 2011, Oxford)

Abstracts

1. "Designing metabolite biosensors for bioprocess monitoring using synthetic biology" [9]

Prizes, Bursaries, Awards, Studentships, Funding

• Shortlisted for UKICRS Essay Competition ‘Drug Delivery – lessons from nature’, 2015
• EPSRC Frontier Engineering programme, 2014
• IChemE Young Researchers Meeting best poster prize, 2012
• enGENEious Conference poster prize, 2012 [10]
• Short-listed for British Federation of Women Graduates (BFWG) Scholarship, 2012
• Third Prize for Best Research Poster, Division of Molecular Biosciences Postgraduate Research Day, 2012
• Biochemical Centenary Poster Prize at the 70th Harden Conference, 2011 [11]
• BBSRC Targeted Priority Studentship, 2010
• BBSRC Vacation Bursary, 2009
• Gatsby Plants Summer Student Bursary, 2008
• Selected to attend Gatsby Plants Summer School, 2007
• 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 College Auxin team (European winner and International runner-up), 2011 [12]

Non-scientific Publications

1. Spiegel Online [13]
2. Weevilmagazine [14]

Outreach

1. Photo selected for exhibition at Imperial Festival 2016
2. Imperial Fringe 2014
3. Imperial Festival 2012

Useful links

• Introductory tutorial
• OpenWetWare help pages
• Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation [15]
• Imperial College London [16]