Nicola Patron is an Associate Professor in Plant Synthetic at the University of Cambridge, UK. Nicola has a PhD in plant molecular biology and pursued postdoctoral research at The John Innes Centre and The University of British Columbia. In 2015, she was identified as an emerging leader in synthetic biology and awarded a SynBioLEAP fellowship. She started her research group at the Earlham Institute in 2016 to apply engineering approaches to plant biology. Her group relocated to Cambridge in February 2024 and is focused on understanding how phenotypes emerge from network functions and exploring and utilising metabolic diversity.

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